---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides for a privacy waiver relative to certain mental health information of postsecondary education students"
description: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides for a privacy waiver relative to certain mental health information of postsecondary education students"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 202"
citation: "Louisiana HB 202 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Delisha Boyd"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-01"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e54ac3d-3ca6-466d-b6c4-a424786ae189"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248129"
source_hash: "78dd00c0127967e3eef6c863e485aad1b12f9c03543fcd4030ec3c4338b0b268"
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 202 (2025) — HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides for a privacy waiver relative to certain mental health information of postsecondary education students

## Version chain

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

1. **HB202 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400839)
2. **HB202 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425076)
3. **HB202 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412203)
4. **HB202 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419673)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#365) — **93–4** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#489) — **6–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#488) — **35–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Delisha Boyd — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Rashid Young — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (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. 157. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `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 93, nays 4. 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 Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e54ac3d-3ca6-466d-b6c4-a424786ae189`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).