Originally published: . Volume 6, No. 5. Source pages: 6.
House Bill 381 allows an exemption to the behavioral health services provider licensure requirement for providers operating for the sole purpose of furnishing substance abuse or mental health treatment services to specialty courts certified by the La. Supreme Court.
The present law requires behavioral health services providers to be licensed by the Dept. of Health and Hospitals.
The new law retains present law but adds an exemption for providers operating for the sole purpose of furnishing substance abuse or mental health services to courts certified by the La. Supreme Court as specialty courts.
Included are facilities or services operating for the sole purpose of providing substance abuse or mental health services to courts that are recognized and certified by the Louisiana Supreme Court as specialty courts.
The measure, put forth by Representatives Jackson and Simon, was reported favorably, 13 to 0, out of Health and Welfare and debated on April 28. It passed in House 97 to 0 and moves to the Senate committee.
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