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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to certain substances in the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law"
+description: "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to certain substances in the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 138"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 138 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Connick"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-25"
+last_action: "2019-06-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ade78a09-42c1-4fbc-9905-889b9170995f"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235816"
+source_hash: "c2da0fca7ffed0101e852da045d4feb20e023f7c9ec0585f8288fe85c3401786"
+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 138 (2019) — CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to certain substances in the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB138 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1117927)
+2. **HB138 Act 354** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144275)
+3. **HB138 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130064)
+4. **HB138 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133669)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1209, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125278)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1955, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129901)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #2080, Connick, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130600)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3138, Claitor, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140770)
+9. **HB138 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141370)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#784) — **33–5** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#265) — **77–17** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Patrick Connick — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-17** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
+- **2019-06-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 354. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 5 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-28** Reported favorably.
+- **2019-05-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 77, nays 17. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/19.
+- **2019-05-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments (12-0-1).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ade78a09-42c1-4fbc-9905-889b9170995f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+