republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/sb-121.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Provides for mental health screenings in schools. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
description: "BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Provides for mental health screenings in schools. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 121"
citation: "Louisiana SB 121 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Selders"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dca0e95f-bbbc-41e4-92e0-07c1bdcb8587"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248398"
source_hash: "b6161319ce587d93a1d6a372bad4b1ced8016003ec1a7c354d4367ebdf5be7a8"
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 121 (2025) — BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Provides for mental health screenings in schools. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB121 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403231)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3849, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420159)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3985, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420995)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #4055, Amedee, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421575)
5. **SB121 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426857)
6. **SB121 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415071)
7. **SB121 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417324)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1672, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414325)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1736, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414726)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1771, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414947)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #788, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407517)
12. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2073, Selders, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416970)
13. **SB121 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424220)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#888) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#335) — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1031) — **67–28** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Larry Selders — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Landry Jr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-07-01** Becomes Act No. 469 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **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 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 28. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-09** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-09** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-06-03** Reported with amendments (10-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `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. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 3 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-20** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2025-05-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2025-05-14** Rules suspended. 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 Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dca0e95f-bbbc-41e4-92e0-07c1bdcb8587`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).