RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 344 (HB 625) 2022 Regular Session Selders
Existing law provides that the geographic service location for a public or private behavioral
health services provider shall be defined to include the parish in which the provider's
business office is located and any parish contiguous to the parish in which the provider's
business office is located.
Prior law established that the geographic service location for a public or private behavioral
health services provider shall be defined to include any distance within a 50-mile radius of
the provider's business office.
New law revises prior law to establish that the geographic service location for such a
provider shall be defined, in part, to include any location within a 50-mile radius of the
provider's business office.
New law provides that a behavioral health services provider may operate within a 50-mile
radius of one designated offsite location in addition to the existing geographic service
locations provided in existing law.
Effective August 1, 2022.
(Amends R.S. 40:2155(B)(2); Adds R.S. 40:2155(B)(3))


Statutes affected:
HB625 Original: 40:2155(B)(2)
HB625 Engrossed: 40:2155(B)(2)
HB625 Reengrossed: 40:2155(B)(2)
HB625 Enrolled: 40:2155(B)(2)
HB625 Act : 40:2155(B)(2)