republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-559.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/LDH: Provides relative to human services districts and boards (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "HEALTH/LDH: Provides relative to human services districts and boards (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 559"
citation: "Louisiana HB 559 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2d4cb94-401a-4cfe-890e-f0f8fae1cd57"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248605"
source_hash: "8442920b589858d42558203ddb19bfe7a222ad2e21fdb997987bc79d3d212cce"
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 559 (2025) — HEALTH/LDH: Provides relative to human services districts and boards (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB559 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404343)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4094, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421863)
3. **HB559 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426003)
4. **HB559 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413171)
5. **HB559 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415192)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1813, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408924)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1856, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409119)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2283, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411735)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #2491, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413012)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #2610, Echols, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413447)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2156, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417387)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2362, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418884)
13. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2634, Seabaugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420523)
14. **HB559 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425242)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#390) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#609) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1265) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1000) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#885) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael Echols — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 381. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-12** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-12** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2025-06-12** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2025-06-09** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2025-06-09** Senate conference committee members appointed: Connick, McMath, and Talbot.
- **2025-06-04** House conferees appointed: Echols, Miller, and Turner.
- **2025-06-04** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2025-06-04** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-28** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-14** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.
- **2025-05-12** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-08** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2d4cb94-401a-4cfe-890e-f0f8fae1cd57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).