RegularSCASB314 Session3005 ENROLLED1622 SENATE BILLCOMMITTEE NO.AMENDMENTS Regular Session AmendmentsproposedbySenateCommitteeonHealthandWelfareto OriginalSenateBill No.

314 BYby SENATORSenator SELDERSSelders ANDAMENDMENT REPRESENTATIVENO. CHASSION AN ACT To amend and reenactR.S.

37:2724(B)(2)(a)and1 R.S.On page 1, line 14, change "at least sixty days" to "at least sixty days" Page 1 of 1

40:31.3(C) and (D) and to enactR.S.

40:31.3(E), relative to community psychiatric support and treatment services;

to provide for limited scope certified social worker license to provide community psychiatric support and treatment services;

to provide for applicability;

to provide relative to the adolescent school health initiative;

to provide policyrequirements;

to provide for an effective date;

and to provide for related matters.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:

Section1.R.S.37:2724(B)(2)(a)is herebyamendedandreenactedtoreadas follows:

§2724.

Qualification;

certified social worker * * * B.

* * * (2)(a) At the end of the three-year certification period, a certified social worker who has provided CPST services pursuant to R.S.

40:2162 and who meets allthequalifications for licensure as a licensed master's social workerexceptforthe provisions of R.S.

37:2707(A)(3) shall petition the board at least sixty days prior to the expiration of the certificate for an extension of the certification for the limited purposeofprovidingCPSTservicesasdefinedinR.S.40:2162.Anycertifiedsocial worker whose three-year certification period expired in calendar year 2025 shallbeallowedtoavailthemselvesoftherightsprovidedforinthisParagraph.

Anycertifiedsocialworkerwhohadacertificationexpireincalendaryear2025 shall have it renewed immediately to allow the individual to proceed with the CPST extension request provided for in this Paragraph.

* * * Section 2.

R.S.

40:31.3(C) and (D) are hereby amended and reenacted and R.S.

40:31.3(E) is hereby enacted to read as follows:

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Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;

words in boldface type and underscored are additions.

SB NO.

314 ENROLLED §31.3.

Adolescent school health initiative;

health centers in schools * * * C.

The office of public health shall develop a policy, at a minimum, that provides for all of the following:

(1) Healthcare providers who are licensed, certified, or registered by their applicable licensing, certification, or registration board, who provide documentationofhavingpassedacriminalbackgroundcheckconductedbythe LouisianaStatePolice,andwhoareingoodstandingwiththeapplicableboard shall not be required by a public school governing authority to complete an additionalcriminalbackgroundcheckinordertobeginprovidingschool-based health center services.

(2)School-based healthcenterservicesshall bepermittedduring school hours if the student's parent or legal guardian has requested such servicesand a healthcare provider determines that evaluation or treatment is necessary during school hours to assist the student with a health condition, illness, or injury requiring evaluation or treatment.

(3) A public school governing authority shall not prohibit a health evaluation,assessment,orauthorizedtreatmentplan frombeingperformedon school property in order to establish medical necessity or deliver medically necessary services.

(4)Thedeterminationoftheneedforhealthevaluationandschool-based health center servicesshall be made by a healthcare provider acting within the scope of his professional license.

No school employee who is not licensed to provide healthcare services shall determine whether a student may receive an evaluation or treatment by a healthcare provider.

D.

Health centers in schools are prohibited from:

(1) Counseling or advocatingabortion in anywayor referringanystudent to any organization for counseling or advocating abortion.