2025 Regular Session • Louisiana Legislature
HB137
Legislative Summary
Authorizes psychologists and medical psychologists to evaluate a patient via telehealth for emergency certificates
Demographic Impact
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Bill History
3/26/2025
Prefiled.
House of Representatives
3/26/2025
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
House of Representatives
3/28/2025
First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/28/2025.
House of Representatives
4/14/2025
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
House of Representatives
5/7/2025
Reported favorably (11-0).
House of Representatives
5/8/2025
Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
House of Representatives
5/12/2025
Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2025.
House of Representatives
5/13/2025
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
House of Representatives
5/14/2025
Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
Senate
5/19/2025
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
Senate
5/28/2025
Reported favorably.
Senate
5/29/2025
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
Senate
Roll Call Votes
House Vote on HB 137 FINAL PASSAGE (#363)
5/13/2025
99
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
5
Absent
Result: PASSED
Status Information
Current Status
Engrossed(5/14/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Sponsors
Republican: 1
Primary Sponsor
Josh Carlson
Republican