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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CONTROL DANGER SUBSTANCE: Increases the penalties for the retail sale of nitrous oxide. (8/1/25)"
+description: "CONTROL DANGER SUBSTANCE: Increases the penalties for the retail sale of nitrous oxide. (8/1/25)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 98"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 98 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brach Myers"]
+version_count: 11
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-04-03"
+last_action: "2025-06-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8729322-9756-4058-8ac1-4fa46605387e"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248337"
+source_hash: "386eaf538d839e51b9ca1e2d4d964c512964aceddb3843c07e956eee6a18f0e5"
+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 98 (2025) — CONTROL DANGER SUBSTANCE: Increases the penalties for the retail sale of nitrous oxide. (8/1/25)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB98 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402782)
+2. **House Floor Amendment, #3856, Stagni, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420189)
+3. **SB98 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424932)
+4. **SB98 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405693)
+5. **SB98 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407334)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #473, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405334)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #475, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405339)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #731, Myers, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407181)
+9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #735, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407201)
+10. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #607, Myers, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406349)
+11. **SB98 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421291)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#751) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#27) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR (#634) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brach Myers — primary (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-08** Effective date 8/1/2025.
+- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 106. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/5/2025. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2025-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-03** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2025-06-02** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-02** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.
+- **2025-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2025-05-20** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2025-04-22** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-04-16** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2025-04-15** 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`
+- **2025-04-03** 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/c8729322-9756-4058-8ac1-4fa46605387e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+