---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAID: Establishes Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain behavioral health services. (7/1/25) (EN +$1,830,352 GF EX See Note)"
description: "MEDICAID: Establishes Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain behavioral health services. (7/1/25) (EN +$1,830,352 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 96"
citation: "Louisiana SB 96 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa920432-2ebe-4594-85d6-4bdc446efb05"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248335"
source_hash: "b77de890474ed7c00ce778fa59dfc5e20aa627bb58da357ace0905d008927d7e"
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 96 (2025) — MEDICAID: Establishes Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain behavioral health services. (7/1/25) (EN +$1,830,352 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB96 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402778)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3925, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420622)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3975, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421023)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #4162, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422484)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #4171, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422502)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #4190, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422693)
7. **SB96 Act 417** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425982)
8. **SB96 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412432)
9. **SB96 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416127)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1212, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410900)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1376, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412213)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1852, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415635)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1865, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415696)
14. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1876, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415712)
15. **SB96 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424178)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#334) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#886) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#972) — **90–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Patrick McMath — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 7/1/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 417. `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 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 7. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-06-08** Reported with amendments (16-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-06-03** Reported with amendments (12-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-22** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-05-19** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2025-05-07** Reported with amendments. `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`
- **2025-04-03** 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/aa920432-2ebe-4594-85d6-4bdc446efb05`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).