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+type: "Bill"
+title: "DRUGS/CONTROLLED: Provides relative to marijuana for therapeutic use"
+description: "DRUGS/CONTROLLED: Provides relative to marijuana for therapeutic use"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 358"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 358 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Edward Ted James"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2019-03-29"
+last_action: "2019-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28274b7a-347c-4090-a295-744e7224feef"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236174"
+source_hash: "329c883195caf02694784858b329ffc1401a186d1e19c7250af78f2abd983d38"
+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 358 (2019) — DRUGS/CONTROLLED: Provides relative to marijuana for therapeutic use
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB358 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121359)
+2. **HB358 Act 284** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144127)
+3. **HB358 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129772)
+4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2661, Mills, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138395)
+5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2783, Claitor, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139031)
+6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3222, Mills, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140974)
+7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3240, Barrow, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141119)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3274, Claitor, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141601)
+9. **HB358 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143113)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#997) — **80–0** (pass) · lower
+- AMENDMENT # 3274 BY CLAITOR, HB 358 BY JAMES (#911) — **10–27** (fail) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#289) — **74–3** (pass) · lower
+- AMENDMENT # 3222 BY MILLS, HB 358 BY JAMES (#909) — **30–7** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#737) — **19–18** (fail) · upper
+- AMENDMENT # 2783 BY CLAITOR, HB 358 BY JAMES (#736) — **21–14** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#912) — **31–7** (pass) · upper
+- AMENDMENT # 3274 BY CLAITOR, QUORUM CALL (#910) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Edward Ted James — primary (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Norton — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
+- James Armes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerome "Dee" Richard — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kevin Pearson — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patricia Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Reid Falconer — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven E. Pylant — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Walt Leger, III — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/19.
+- **2019-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 284. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-06** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-06-06** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-06-05** Read by title, roll called, yeas 80, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2019-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/05/19.
+- **2019-06-04** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2019-06-03** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 7 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-06-03** Reconsidered.
+- **2019-06-01** Notice of reconsideration on the next legislative day.
+- **2019-06-01** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title; failed to pass by a vote of 19 yeas and 18 nays.
+- **2019-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-23** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-22** Reported favorably.
+- **2019-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 74, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/19.
+- **2019-05-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-01** Reported favorably (10-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/28274b7a-347c-4090-a295-744e7224feef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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