---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to immunity from prosecution for medical marijuana"
description: "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to immunity from prosecution for medical marijuana"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 418"
citation: "Louisiana HB 418 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeremy LaCombe"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74525af2-9a57-4226-9e72-0680021306b1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238119"
source_hash: "5ceacd1ca00bd40fc5119cfc8d9a30fcef1ebe58857da1a80c055ef09d3f924f"
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 418 (2020) — CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to immunity from prosecution for medical marijuana

## Version chain

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

1. **HB418 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162545)
2. **HB418 Act 147** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181456)
3. **HB418 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172307)
4. **HB418 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175377)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2456, LaCombe, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175007)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2059, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176383)
7. **HB418 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178595)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#318) — **75–18** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#692) — **80–11** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#584) — **34–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jeremy LaCombe — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 147. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 80, nays 11, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-28** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary C.
- **2020-05-27** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2020-05-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 75, nays 18. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-15** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74525af2-9a57-4226-9e72-0680021306b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).