republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/hb-589.md

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Bill	MENTAL HEALTH: Provides relative to civil involuntary outpatient treatment for persons suffering from mental illness	MENTAL HEALTH: Provides relative to civil involuntary outpatient treatment for persons suffering from mental illness	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2021	HB 589	Louisiana HB 589 (2021)	bill		enacted	Royce Duplessis	11	23	3	2021-04-02	2021-06-14	openstates	ocd-bill/c403d544-4b21-44f0-b82a-fbcb57f8b945	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240558	c5f503255f30df813eda81a36c13e1a28a79231454c1810c6b26cf34c00ddfdb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 589 (2021) — MENTAL HEALTH: Provides relative to civil involuntary outpatient treatment for persons suffering from mental illness

Version chain

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

1. HB589 Original (filed) — source
2. HB589 Act 329 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB589 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB589 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2742, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2813, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #3223, Duplessis, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2090, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #3148, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #3180, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. HB589 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#826) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1130) — 100–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#567) — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Royce Duplessis — primary (person)
• Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-14 Effective date: 08/01/2021.
• 2021-06-14 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 329. executive-signature
• 2021-06-11 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2021-06-09 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2021-06-09 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2021-06-08 Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2021-06-07 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
• 2021-06-07 Received from the Senate with amendments.
• 2021-06-06 Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2021-06-03 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2021-06-02 Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2021-05-24 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2021-05-19 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2021-05-19 Called from the calendar.
• 2021-05-19 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2021-05-18 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2021.
• 2021-05-13 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2021-05-12 Reported with amendments (14-0).
• 2021-04-12 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2021-04-02 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
• 2021-04-02 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2021-04-02 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c403d544-4b21-44f0-b82a-fbcb57f8b945. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).