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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HOSPITALS: Provides for hospital drug screenings. (8/1/24)"
+description: "HOSPITALS: Provides for hospital drug screenings. (8/1/24)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 487"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 487 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Stewart Cathey , Jr."]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-04-02"
+last_action: "2024-06-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/723cab98-4123-4e5a-8a2c-9db746dd6164"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247185"
+source_hash: "f59a803be065fbe4949ed737832899295a0ef27c56ffc43ece595c5ff22591be"
+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 487 (2024) — HOSPITALS: Provides for hospital drug screenings. (8/1/24)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB487 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361487)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #4914, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376647)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #4954, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377030)
+4. **House Floor Amendment, #5183, Freeman, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378739)
+5. **SB487 Act 769** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382659)
+6. **SB487 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368981)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2424, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368588)
+8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2468, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368773)
+9. **SB487 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380012)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#450) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1432) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR (#1281) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — primary (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-19** Effective date 8/1/2024.
+- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 769. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2024-05-30** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-29** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2024-05-28** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2024.
+- **2024-05-23** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2024-05-21** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-01** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-30** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2024-04-30** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-04-29** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **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** Rules suspended. Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/723cab98-4123-4e5a-8a2c-9db746dd6164`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+