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HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS
HB 709 2022 Regular Session Selders
HEALTH/BEHAVIORAL: Authorizes behavioral health services providers to furnish
services to clients and patients regardless of those persons' location within the state
Synopsis of Senate Amendments
1.Deletes proposed law in its entirety. Adds in lieu thereof provisions authorizing
fully or provisionally licensed mental health professionals, acting within their
scope of practice and employed by licensed behavioral health service providers,
to provide professional outpatient psychiatric services to any established client
or patient regardless of the client's or patient's particular location within the
state.
Digest of Bill as Finally Passed by Senate
Present law provides for licensure of behavioral health services providers by the La.
Department of Health.
Proposed law retains present law and authorizes fully or provisionally licensed mental health
professionals, acting within their scope of practice and employed by licensed behavioral
health service providers, to provide professional outpatient psychiatric services to any
established client or patient regardless of the client's or patient's particular location within
the state.
(Adds R.S. 40:2155(B)(3))
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