---
type: "Bill"
title: "PHYSICAL THERAPISTS: Provides relative to the supervision of physical therapist assistants"
description: "PHYSICAL THERAPISTS: Provides relative to the supervision of physical therapist assistants"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 159"
citation: "Louisiana HB 159 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joe Stagni"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/718b8a10-2659-46f4-b8fb-f5798b4dda27"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248069"
source_hash: "126f31203c9232a657c4e7ad2a841c2d5c66a1e0346eb420eb50b578fdccbdfd"
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 159 (2025) — PHYSICAL THERAPISTS: Provides relative to the supervision of physical therapist assistants

## Version chain

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

1. **HB159 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400254)
2. **HB159 Act 65** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422273)
3. **HB159 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406105)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1161, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405385)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1292, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406078)
6. **HB159 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419226)

## Votes

- CO-AUTHORS (#431) — **10–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#430) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#21) — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joe Stagni — primary (person)
- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 65. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/29/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.
- **2025-04-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/718b8a10-2659-46f4-b8fb-f5798b4dda27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).