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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Criminalizes the possession or distribution of kratom. (8/1/25)"
+description: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Criminalizes the possession or distribution of kratom. (8/1/25)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 154"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 154 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jay Morris"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-04-04"
+last_action: "2025-06-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55628716-a91c-476a-bc2a-7a434504adf6"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248571"
+source_hash: "1b506b215bc0aa318a09544bbf593acb06c1d0bd45185b767ba245667f622dc1"
+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 154 (2025) — AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Criminalizes the possession or distribution of kratom. (8/1/25)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB154 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404179)
+2. **House Floor Amendment, #3476, Amedee, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417982)
+3. **House Floor Amendment, #3496, Egan, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418041)
+4. **SB154 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422223)
+5. **SB154 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409913)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1018, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409643)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1019, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409649)
+8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #816, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407889)
+9. **SB154 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418372)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AMENDMENT # 3476 BY AMEDEE, MOTION TO ADOPT (#638) — **13–80** (fail) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#640) — **89–5** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#150) — **26–11** (pass) · upper
+- AMENDMENT # 3496 BY EGAN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#639) — **16–72** (fail) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#151) — **11–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jay Morris — primary (person)
+- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
+- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
+- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
+- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-04** Effective date 8/1/2025.
+- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 41. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-29** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-28** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2025-05-28** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2025-05-27** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 5. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2025.
+- **2025-05-19** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably (10-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-07** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-06** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2025-05-06** Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 11 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-04-30** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2025-04-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55628716-a91c-476a-bc2a-7a434504adf6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+