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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PHARMACISTS: Provides relative to licensing requirements for pharmacists. (8/1/18)"
+description: "PHARMACISTS: Provides relative to licensing requirements for pharmacists. (8/1/18)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 131"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 131 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Fred H. Mills, Jr."]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-27"
+last_action: "2018-05-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/791b28ee-0c56-4bc3-898f-36465f21482a"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233450"
+source_hash: "58dcd556fc9a648c5e70eaa044d3ef8f1abbd270dd57b9ce59535c42d006a7a3"
+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 SB 131 (2018) — PHARMACISTS: Provides relative to licensing requirements for pharmacists. (8/1/18)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB131 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1068692)
+2. **SB131 Act 31** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097226)
+3. **SB131 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075013)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #929, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074841)
+5. **SB131 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1091326)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#74) — **37–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#628) — **85–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-10** Effective date 8/1/2018.
+- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 31. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-02** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-04-30** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2018-04-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-04-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/18.
+- **2018-04-16** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-04-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2018-04-12** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-03-20** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-19** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2018-03-19** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-03-15** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-03-14** Reported with amendments.
+- **2018-03-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/791b28ee-0c56-4bc3-898f-36465f21482a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+