HASBSB127 ODOMD 2845
SENATE SUMMARY OF HOUSE AMENDMENTS
SB 127 2021 Regular Session McMath
KEYWORD AND SUMMARY AS RETURNED TO THE SENATE
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH. Provides relative to specialized behavioral health
rehabilitation services in the Louisiana medical assistance program. (8/1/21)
SUMMARY OF HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO THE SENATE BILL
1. Expands the fields of study for the bachelor's degree requirement.
DIGEST OF THE SENATE BILL AS RETURNED TO THE SENATE
SB 127 Engrossed 2021 Regular Session McMath
Present law defines "psychosocial rehabilitation services" (PSR services) as
psycho-educational services provided to individuals with mental illness in order to assist
with skill-building, restoration, and rehabilitation, designed to assist the individual with
compensating for or eliminating functional deficits and interpersonal or environmental
barriers associated with mental illness.
Proposed law retains present law.
Present law provides that, in order to be eligible to receive Medicaid reimbursement, all
behavioral health services providers shall ensure that any individual rendering PSR services
for the provider agency meets certain enumerated requirements including a minimum of a
bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college in the field of counseling, social
work, psychology, or sociology.
Proposed law retains present law and expands the minimum eligible educational requirement
to include a bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college in the fields of
counseling, social work, psychology, sociology, rehabilitation services, special education,
early childhood education, secondary education, family and consumer sciences, or human
growth and development with a minor in counseling, social work, sociology, or psychology.
Present law provides that any individual rendering PSR services who does not possess the
minimum bachelor's degree required by present law, but who met all provider qualifications
in effect prior to July 1, 2018, may continue to provide PSR services for the same provider
agency. Further provides that, prior to the individual rendering PSR services at a different
provider agency, the individual must comply with the provisions of present law.
Proposed law retains present law but makes technical changes.
Effective August 1, 2021.
(Amends R.S. 40:2162(D)(2))
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Thomas L. Tyler
Deputy Chief of Staff