---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/BEHAVIORAL: Provides relative to employment with behavioral health services providers of peer support specialists"
description: "HEALTH/BEHAVIORAL: Provides relative to employment with behavioral health services providers of peer support specialists"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 334"
citation: "Louisiana HB 334 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Royce Duplessis"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fea3e567-2b40-4d8d-95b4-d3592d1bc115"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241960"
source_hash: "d51643fab3e7eec42677e1b0cbe8ac08bae30097c2a6e0f6d2316a0f77f56646"
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 334 (2022) — HEALTH/BEHAVIORAL: Provides relative to employment with behavioral health services providers of peer support specialists

## Version chain

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

1. **HB334 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1253794)
2. **HB334 Act 151** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286088)
3. **HB334 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267437)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2123, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266869)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2183, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267253)
6. **HB334 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280365)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#263) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#673) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Royce Duplessis — primary (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 151. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-20** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-19** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-18** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-17** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-12** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-11** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-12** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/12/2022.
- **2022-04-07** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-06** Reported with amendments (14-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fea3e567-2b40-4d8d-95b4-d3592d1bc115`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).