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+type: "Bill"
+title: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Provides relative to the regulation of medical marijuana"
+description: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Provides relative to the regulation of medical marijuana"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 376"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 376 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-02-29"
+last_action: "2024-06-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26791f72-b5c4-4a02-b506-6c20f65ac29f"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246061"
+source_hash: "634cebde4b99888c1fdc0781e9973dc05a88b506c440df71f6fc441bf451d52d"
+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 376 (2024) — MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Provides relative to the regulation of medical marijuana
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB376 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350123)
+2. **HB376 Act 693** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382714)
+3. **HB376 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356695)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1543, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356596)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1551, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356665)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1708, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363167)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2469, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368775)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3812, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375879)
+9. **HB376 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380199)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1180) — **20–12** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1578) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#126) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Neil Riser — primary (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 01/01/2025.
+- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 693. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2024-05-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
+- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-23** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 20 yeas and 12 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
+- **2024-05-16** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended.
+- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-29** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-04-24** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-03-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-03-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/27/2024.
+- **2024-03-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-21** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26791f72-b5c4-4a02-b506-6c20f65ac29f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+