---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to certain substances in the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law"
description: "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to certain substances in the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 138"
citation: "Louisiana HB 138 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Connick"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-25"
last_action: "2019-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ade78a09-42c1-4fbc-9905-889b9170995f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235816"
source_hash: "c2da0fca7ffed0101e852da045d4feb20e023f7c9ec0585f8288fe85c3401786"
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 138 (2019) — CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to certain substances in the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law

## Version chain

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

1. **HB138 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1117927)
2. **HB138 Act 354** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144275)
3. **HB138 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130064)
4. **HB138 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133669)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1209, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125278)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1955, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129901)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2080, Connick, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130600)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3138, Claitor, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140770)
9. **HB138 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141370)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#784) — **33–5** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#265) — **77–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Patrick Connick — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-17** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 354. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 5 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-28** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 77, nays 17. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/19.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments (12-0-1).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ade78a09-42c1-4fbc-9905-889b9170995f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).