republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020/hb-449.md

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Bill	HEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to behavioral health services delivered via telehealth	HEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to behavioral health services delivered via telehealth	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020	HB 449	Louisiana HB 449 (2020)	bill		enacted	Michael Echols	7	19	3	2020-02-27	2020-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/f897a1fe-2533-49df-a40d-01926c5f42aa	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238165	e1073c8dfe23d57dbb44359d14c3531632bfcfe175077cbaff20d35a06952128	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 449 (2020) — HEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to behavioral health services delivered via telehealth

Version chain

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

1. HB449 Original (filed) — source
2. HB449 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB449 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB449 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #2013, Echols, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Floor Amendment, #2000, Mills, Fred, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. HB449 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#388) — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#654) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 449 BY ECHOLS (#76) — 92–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Michael Echols — primary (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-11 Effective date: 08/01/2020.
• 2020-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 191. executive-signature
• 2020-06-02 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2020-06-01 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-06-01 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-05-31 Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2020-05-27 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
• 2020-05-27 Received from the Senate with amendments.
• 2020-05-27 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-05-21 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-05-20 Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-05-18 Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2020-05-15 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-05-13 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
• 2020-05-13 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-05-07 Reported favorably (14-0).
• 2020-03-09 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f897a1fe-2533-49df-a40d-01926c5f42aa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).