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+type: "Bill"
+title: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Authorizes the recommendation of medical marijuana for additional conditions and allows any state-licensed physician to recommend medical marijuana"
+description: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Authorizes the recommendation of medical marijuana for additional conditions and allows any state-licensed physician to recommend medical marijuana"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 819"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 819 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Larry Bagley"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-03-31"
+last_action: "2020-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31c117c4-41af-40bb-b923-36f113194f8c"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238772"
+source_hash: "f8b0c35c5009f90baa5456f1e263780a1db7c8428ba4462e0f682af0bbf108da"
+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 819 (2020) — MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Authorizes the recommendation of medical marijuana for additional conditions and allows any state-licensed physician to recommend medical marijuana
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB819 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1168097)
+2. **HB819 Act 286** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182363)
+3. **HB819 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169717)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1460, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169155)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1498, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169414)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1542, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169690)
+7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1880, Henry, Cameron, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175008)
+8. **HB819 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178460)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#160) — **77–15** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#391) — **28–6** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#663) — **75–16** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Larry Bagley — primary (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
+- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
+- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
+- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 286. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 74, nays 16, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2020-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
+- **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2020-05-27** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 6 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-05-20** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 77, nays 15. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
+- **2020-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments (11-0).
+- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-31** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31c117c4-41af-40bb-b923-36f113194f8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+