---
type: "Bill"
title: "LICENSING: Requires third-party logistics providers to obtain controlled dangerous substance licenses (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)"
description: "LICENSING: Requires third-party logistics providers to obtain controlled dangerous substance licenses (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 45"
citation: "Louisiana HB 45 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Connick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4e8ab42-04f6-4221-9cdb-fdf0c5458cc8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233119"
source_hash: "1b0ac63e6e52bf7af124caaccea6df345dd42a58b1f93e726281a203f33d8ede"
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 45 (2018) — LICENSING: Requires third-party logistics providers to obtain controlled dangerous substance licenses (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB45 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1062133)
2. **HB45 Act 186** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099042)
3. **HB45 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074810)
4. **HB45 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094421)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#41) — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#852) — **33–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Patrick Connick — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 186. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-05-03** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-05-02** Reported favorably.
- **2018-03-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/19/18.
- **2018-03-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-14** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/2/2018.
- **2018-01-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4e8ab42-04f6-4221-9cdb-fdf0c5458cc8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).