---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/EMERG MED SERVICE: Authorizes psychologists and medical psychologists to evaluate a patient via telehealth for emergency certificates"
description: "HEALTH/EMERG MED SERVICE: Authorizes psychologists and medical psychologists to evaluate a patient via telehealth for emergency certificates"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 137"
citation: "Louisiana HB 137 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Josh Carlson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-26"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4e9fa13-7de4-45c0-b680-fdb7d3ab351a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248036"
source_hash: "84b1b1f2f2f90f07bf76bc5f77edf6a90fdf2627f16135d61e38d15e86da1b46"
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 137 (2025) — HEALTH/EMERG MED SERVICE: Authorizes psychologists and medical psychologists to evaluate a patient via telehealth for emergency certificates

## Version chain

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

1. **HB137 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1398891)
2. **HB137 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425053)
3. **HB137 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412137)
4. **HB137 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420769)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#363) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#566) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Josh Carlson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 148. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-28** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-13** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2025.
- **2025-05-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-07** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/28/2025.
- **2025-03-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4e9fa13-7de4-45c0-b680-fdb7d3ab351a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).