---
type: "Bill"
title: "BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Provides relative to behavioral health rehabilitation services in the Louisiana medical assistance program. (gov sig)"
description: "BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Provides relative to behavioral health rehabilitation services in the Louisiana medical assistance program. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 153"
citation: "Louisiana SB 153 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Selders"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88fbd775-938a-4b2a-92fb-4b1e0b002149"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248570"
source_hash: "bc49b9fd2aaa6d59b453487f24cd6a4f281fe231d7258a190bcf7741e5e92909"
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 SB 153 (2025) — BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Provides relative to behavioral health rehabilitation services in the Louisiana medical assistance program. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB153 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404177)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3532, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418272)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3643, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418954)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3936, Fisher, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420671)
5. **SB153 Act 431** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426031)
6. **SB153 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412383)
7. **SB153 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424104)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#960) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#877) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#233) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Larry Selders — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 6/20/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 431. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-08** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Notice given.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-28** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-13** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-08** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-05-07** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88fbd775-938a-4b2a-92fb-4b1e0b002149`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).