---
type: "Bill"
title: "PHARMACISTS: Provides relative to pharmacy record audits"
description: "PHARMACISTS: Provides relative to pharmacy record audits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 538"
citation: "Louisiana HB 538 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["H. Bernard LeBas"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/250c8a13-b1b2-4e67-9bc5-beba1d365cfa"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236388"
source_hash: "a41bc21b732b0aa60f3e35eb12c924243a1c9b303b681fa636219d1582ed5204"
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 538 (2019) — PHARMACISTS: Provides relative to pharmacy record audits

## Version chain

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

1. **HB538 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122223)
2. **HB538 Act 167** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143700)
3. **HB538 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133876)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2059, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130454)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2628, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133745)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2635, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133837)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2768, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138914)
8. **HB538 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142147)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#501) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#906) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#815) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- H. Bernard LeBas — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 167. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended. The amended bill was 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 with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/19.
- **2019-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-14** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/250c8a13-b1b2-4e67-9bc5-beba1d365cfa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).