RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 390 (HB 709) 2022 Regular Session Selders
Existing law provides for licensure of behavioral health services providers by the La.
Department of Health.
New law retains existing law and adds thereto an authorization for fully or provisionally
licensed mental health professionals, acting within their scope of practice and employed by
licensed behavioral health providers, to provide professional outpatient psychiatric services
to any established client or patient regardless of the client's or patient's location within the
state.
Effective August 1, 2022.
(Adds R.S. 40:2155(B)(3))