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Yes: 243 • No: 0
LouisianaHB 3522026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
STUDENTS: Provides relative to behavioral health services for public school students (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
Sponsored By: Shane Mack (Republican)
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Students get behavioral health care at school
Louisiana public schools cannot bar behavioral health evaluations, assessments, or medically necessary care on school property. Parents must submit an evaluation, an assessment, and an authorized treatment plan from their chosen provider. The evaluation must show that a diagnosed medical condition causes a behavioral health impairment that interferes with success at school. It must also show that care is medically necessary during school hours. Care can take place in class, including English, reading, math, and science, or outside class when medically necessary. Schools and providers must set a consistent schedule that balances medical needs, provider ethics, school operations, and testing. Services can start or continue before the school review meeting when reasonable efforts are made to coordinate with staff. Schools must give providers reasonable access to enter, observe the student, and deliver authorized care coordinated with instruction. Each school authority must adopt a policy, post it online, and include it in the student handbook. Policies cannot impose burdensome provider requirements that delay or block medically necessary care.
Student care protected, provider roles limited
Schools cannot deny medically necessary behavioral health care just because it is missing from a student’s school plan. Providers must follow applicable education, disability, behavior, and health plans and put their services in a written treatment plan. When plans conflict, the school plan controls the educational services and supports it covers. Providers cannot knowingly interfere with legally required school-plan services unless the service providers collaborate and agree. Providers must make reasonable efforts to limit disruption, and their classroom role is limited to serving the designated student. They can work with school staff but cannot direct, supervise, or evaluate school employees. School-provider agreements can state whether principals may dismiss provider staff from campus and the terms for dismissal.
Schools must review students’ care on time
Schools must hold an in-person or virtual service review within 21 days after a parent submits the treatment plan. The meeting must also occur no later than 14 school days after services begin. The administrator or designee, classroom teachers, and behavioral health provider must attend. Staff responsible for special education, disability, behavior, or health plans may also attend. The meeting covers treatment and school plans, provider duties, classroom routines and policies, communication methods and frequency, and scheduling. It must set procedures for requesting follow-up meetings after provider changes or major changes in classroom, placement, or treatment. This review does not replace required individualized education program meetings.
Students get privacy protections during school care
During virtual provider supervision, no student other than the student receiving behavioral health services may be recorded. Providers must discuss classroom strategies, interventions, accommodations, modifications, supports, and safety recommendations outside other students’ presence. These discussions must be with the teacher and administrator or designee. The privacy rule allows immediate action in front of students when needed to prevent imminent harm to someone.
Parents get dispute rights with limits
The state education board must adopt rules, and the Department of Education must establish dispute resolution guidelines. Unresolved disagreements about scheduling or other school-based behavioral health matters follow that process. Only a student’s parent or legal guardian may file a claim about that student. A claim can be filed only after an alleged incident occurs.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Shane Mack
Republican • House
Cosponsors
Annie Spell
Republican • House
Brach Jerad Myers
Republican • Senate
Dana Henry
Democratic • House
Roy Daryl Adams
Democratic • House
Debbie Villio
Republican • House
Franklin J. Foil
Republican • Senate
Kathy Edmonston
Republican • House
Katrina R. Jackson-Andrews
Democratic • Senate
Kellee Hennessy Dickerson
Republican • House
Kirk Talbot
Republican • Senate
Regina Barrow
Democratic • Senate
Sam Jenkins
Democratic • Senate
Steven Jackson
Democratic • House
Tehmi Jahi Chassion
Democratic • House
Valarie Hodges
Republican • Senate
Vanessa Caston LaFleur
Democratic • House
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/29/2026
Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
Yes: 95 • No: 0
Senate vote • 5/25/2026
Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
Yes: 36 • No: 0
House vote • 4/8/2026
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
Yes: 98 • No: 0
House vote • 3/25/2026
Reported with amendments
Yes: 14 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Becomes Act No. 944 without the Governor's signature.
6/23/2026HouseEffective date: 08/01/2026.
6/23/2026HouseSigned by the President of the Senate.
6/1/2026SenateSent to the Governor for executive approval.
6/1/2026HouseEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
5/31/2026HouseRead by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
5/29/2026HouseScheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.
5/27/2026HouseReceived from the Senate with amendments.
5/26/2026HouseRules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
5/25/2026SenateReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
5/20/2026SenateCommittee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
5/19/2026SenateReported with amendments.
5/18/2026SenateRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
4/14/2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
4/13/2026SenateCalled from the calendar.
4/8/2026HouseRead third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
4/8/2026HouseCalled from the calendar.
4/7/2026HouseRead by title, returned to the calendar.
4/7/2026HouseNotice given.
4/7/2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2026.
4/7/2026HouseRead by title, returned to the calendar.
3/31/2026HouseNotice given.
3/31/2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 04/07/2026.
3/31/2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 03/31/2026.
3/30/2026HouseRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
3/26/2026House
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