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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PHARMACEUTICALS: Provides relative to opioid alternatives. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "PHARMACEUTICALS: Provides relative to opioid alternatives. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 224"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 224 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Robert \"Bob\" Owen"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-05-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9a799ac-15ed-433b-9e24-f3960b621d02"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246384"
+source_hash: "dd81514d2a7ef178ffe8efaf16ddff6f450c72436145dfa6cb1d94d52a1112d7"
+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 224 (2024) — PHARMACEUTICALS: Provides relative to opioid alternatives. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB224 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351975)
+2. **SB224 Act 320** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380792)
+3. **SB224 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369003)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1125, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357228)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2464, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368771)
+6. **SB224 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377868)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1320) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#486) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Robert "Bob" Owen — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-28** Effective date 8/1/2024.
+- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 320. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2024-05-23** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-22** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
+- **2024-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2024-05-15** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-07** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-06** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2024-05-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-04-30** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-30** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
+- **2024-04-29** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
+- **2024-04-24** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** 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/a9a799ac-15ed-433b-9e24-f3960b621d02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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