---
type: "Bill"
title: "MENTAL HEALTH: Provides relative to standards for psychiatric hospitals and residential substance abuse facilities (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "MENTAL HEALTH: Provides relative to standards for psychiatric hospitals and residential substance abuse facilities (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 868"
citation: "Louisiana HB 868 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peter Egan"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3875e504-6a3f-479b-8fb2-20281d048c82"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247061"
source_hash: "61472ccca62098ed4f19133e41294785d4db42be078e9358895173ca17fdffb5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---

# Louisiana HB 868 (2024) — MENTAL HEALTH: Provides relative to standards for psychiatric hospitals and residential substance abuse facilities (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB868 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360967)
2. **HB868 Act 743** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382771)
3. **HB868 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366233)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2678, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363917)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3101, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366140)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3823, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376017)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4083, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377589)
8. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #4229, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378564)
9. **HB868 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380670)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1669) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1028) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1315) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Peter Egan — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 743. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-30** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/30/2024.
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-28** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-23** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-22** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2024.
- **2024-05-09** Notice given.
- **2024-04-23** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/23/2024.
- **2024-04-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-16** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3875e504-6a3f-479b-8fb2-20281d048c82`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).