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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "SPEECH/PATH/AUDIO: Provides relative to the practice of audiology and speech-language pathology"
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description: "SPEECH/PATH/AUDIO: Provides relative to the practice of audiology and speech-language pathology"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 442"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 442 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Chance Henry"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 24
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2025-04-04"
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last_action: "2025-06-20"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/189bb115-869b-48d6-9ccb-a4be5ec547d2"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248449"
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source_hash: "85407fcab5708242e94939363b47eaf960fe0b9479cdaa4e23c11607e6fa04ae"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# Louisiana HB 442 (2025) — SPEECH/PATH/AUDIO: Provides relative to the practice of audiology and speech-language pathology
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB442 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403638)
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2. **HB442 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425974)
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3. **HB442 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415215)
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4. **House Committee Amendment, #2698, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413808)
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5. **House Committee Amendment, #2898, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415149)
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6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3091, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422674)
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7. **HB442 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424426)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#488) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#807) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1126) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Chance Henry — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
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- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 363. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2025-06-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
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- **2025-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
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- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
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- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
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- **2025-06-09** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
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- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
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- **2025-06-08** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
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- **2025-06-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
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- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended.
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- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
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- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
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- **2025-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
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- **2025-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/189bb115-869b-48d6-9ccb-a4be5ec547d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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