---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to opioid data reporting"
description: "PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to opioid data reporting"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 243"
citation: "Louisiana HB 243 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dustin Miller"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0003c01-db1b-40b1-833a-5c7818a0aa21"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235971"
source_hash: "235223e7340e23ec386b51b37394f7fb789fb4766f0b238dcc72354728923727"
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 243 (2019) — PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to opioid data reporting

## Version chain

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

1. **HB243 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119474)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3691, House Proposed, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143028)
3. **HB243 Act 423** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144898)
4. **HB243 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127572)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1461, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126783)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1553, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127496)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3141, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140773)
8. **HB243 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143436)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#438) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1032) — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1013) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#887) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#796) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dustin Miller — primary (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-30** Effective date: 06/20/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 423. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-06** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-06** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 90, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee report received.
- **2019-06-06** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-05** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-06-04** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2019-06-04** Senate conference committee members appointed: Barrow, Mills, and Mizell.
- **2019-06-04** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2019-06-04** House conferees appointed: Dustin Miller, Hoffmann, and White.
- **2019-06-03** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 103, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-07** Reported favorably (8-2).
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2019-04-25** Reported with amendments (14-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0003c01-db1b-40b1-833a-5c7818a0aa21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).