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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "DRUGS: Reduces criminal penalties for certain offenses involving legend drugs"
+description: "DRUGS: Reduces criminal penalties for certain offenses involving legend drugs"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 224"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 224 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Marino"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-28"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74dc6ac9-c9e5-4e39-8cbd-aa34ef29d18c"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233506"
+source_hash: "ebdfd93139aa5b5b5e4ee24ede2af9dc0920f0eaccd2b00d3f7c9b4746cbcf02"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 224 (2018) — DRUGS: Reduces criminal penalties for certain offenses involving legend drugs
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB224 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1069071)
+2. **HB224 Act 203** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099059)
+3. **HB224 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080035)
+4. **HB224 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094388)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#790) — **22–11** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#253) — **93–1** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Joseph Marino — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
+- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 203. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-08** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2018-05-07** Read by title, passed by a vote of 22 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-05-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-05-02** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-05-01** Reported favorably.
+- **2018-04-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-04** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-04-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-03-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/18.
+- **2018-03-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-03-28** Reported favorably (16-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74dc6ac9-c9e5-4e39-8cbd-aa34ef29d18c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+