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LouisianaSB 2552026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Provides relative to psychosocial rehabilitation (PSR) services. (8/1/26)

Sponsored By: Larry Selders

Signed by Governor

Health and Welfare

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

More qualifying degrees for Medicaid behavioral care

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana expands accepted worker degrees for Medicaid reimbursement of certain behavioral health services. The law adds health sciences, therapeutic recreation, and criminal justice to the accepted fields. This applies to psychosocial rehabilitation and community psychiatric support and treatment. Workers must hold at least a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and serve through a licensed, accredited agency. This may improve access for Medicaid patients, but does not guarantee more providers.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Larry Selders

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

  • Aimee Adatto Freeman

    Democratic • House

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

  • C. Travis Johnson

    Democratic • House

  • Candace N. Newell

    Democratic • House

  • Chasity Martinez

    Democratic • House

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Delisha Boyd

    Democratic • House

  • Ed Larvadain III

    Democratic • House

  • Ed Murray

    Democratic • House

  • Kyle M. Green Jr.

    Democratic • House

  • Marcus Anthony Bryant

    Democratic • House

  • Robby Carter

    Democratic • House

  • Rodney Lyons

    Democratic • House

  • Sylvia Elaine Taylor

    Democratic • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

  • Terry Landry Jr.

    Democratic • House

  • Vanessa Caston LaFleur

    Democratic • House

  • Wilford Carter Sr.

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 144 • No: 0

House vote • 5/11/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 4/29/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/8/2026

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

Yes: 36 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 375.

    5/22/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2026.

    5/22/2026Senate

  3. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.

    5/20/2026Senate

  4. Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/19/2026Senate

  5. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/19/2026House

  6. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/11/2026House

  7. Received from the House with amendments.

    5/11/2026Senate

  8. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2026.

    5/7/2026House

  9. Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/6/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/5/2026House

  11. Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    4/29/2026House

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

    4/13/2026House

  13. Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.

    4/9/2026House

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

    4/8/2026Senate

  15. Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    4/7/2026Senate

  16. Reported favorably.

    4/1/2026Senate

  17. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    3/9/2026Senate

  18. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    2/26/2026Senate

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