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ACT No. 344
2022 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 625
BY REPRESENTATIVE SELDERS
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 40:2155(B)(2) and to enact R.S. 40:2155(B)(3), relative to
3 behavioral health service providers; to provide for offsite locations; to provide for
4 defined geographic service locations; and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 40:2155(B)(2) is hereby amended and reenacted and R.S.
7 40:2155(B)(3) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
8 ยง2155. Licensure of behavioral health services providers
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10 B.
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12 (2) The geographic service location for a public or private behavioral health
13 services provider licensed pursuant to this Part shall be defined to include all of the
14 following:
15 (a) The the parish in which the provider's business office is located.,
16 (b) Any any parish contiguous to the parish in which the provider's business
17 office is located., and
18 (c) Any any distance location within a fifty-mile radius of the provider's
19 business office.
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1 (3) A behavioral health service provider may operate within a fifty-mile
2 radius of one designated offsite location.
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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