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LouisianaHB 7472026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to medical psychologists

Sponsored By: Dustin Miller (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Health and Welfare

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Bill Overview

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1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

New advanced license rules for medical psychologists

Louisiana replaces the advanced-practice certificate with an advanced medical psychology license issued by the State Board of Medical Examiners. Applicants must hold a medical psychology license, have three years of practice, and have treated at least 100 patients with different psychiatric medicines. They need recommendations from the Medical Psychology Advisory Committee and two collaborating physicians familiar with their skills who hold unrestricted Louisiana medical licenses. Applicants also need at least 100 hours of continuing medical education on psychiatric medicines, counted starting when their medical psychology license is issued. The board can charge no more than $325 for the initial application and license, and $300 for annual renewal.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Dustin Miller

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 146 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/11/2026

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 • 4/7/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 99 • No: 0

House vote • 3/24/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 174.

    5/15/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/15/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/13/2026House

  4. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/12/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/12/2026Senate

  6. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/11/2026Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/11/2026House

  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    4/28/2026Senate

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    4/27/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/22/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    4/8/2026Senate

  12. Called from the calendar.

    4/7/2026House

  13. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/7/2026House

  14. Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    4/7/2026Senate

  15. Notice given.

    4/1/2026House

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/07/2026.

    4/1/2026House

  17. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    3/30/2026House

  18. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/30/2026.

    3/26/2026House

  19. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    3/25/2026House

  20. Reported favorably (11-0).

    3/24/2026House

  21. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    3/9/2026House

  22. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

  23. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    2/27/2026House

  24. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

    2/27/2026House

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