---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Authorizes the recommendation of medical marijuana for additional conditions and allows any state-licensed physician to recommend medical marijuana"
description: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Authorizes the recommendation of medical marijuana for additional conditions and allows any state-licensed physician to recommend medical marijuana"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 819"
citation: "Louisiana HB 819 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Bagley"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-03-31"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31c117c4-41af-40bb-b923-36f113194f8c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238772"
source_hash: "f8b0c35c5009f90baa5456f1e263780a1db7c8428ba4462e0f682af0bbf108da"
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 819 (2020) — MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Authorizes the recommendation of medical marijuana for additional conditions and allows any state-licensed physician to recommend medical marijuana

## Version chain

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

1. **HB819 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1168097)
2. **HB819 Act 286** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182363)
3. **HB819 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169717)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1460, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169155)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1498, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169414)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1542, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169690)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1880, Henry, Cameron, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175008)
8. **HB819 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178460)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#160) — **77–15** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#391) — **28–6** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#663) — **75–16** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Larry Bagley — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 286. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** 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 74, nays 16, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 6 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-20** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** 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`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 77, nays 15. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-31** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31c117c4-41af-40bb-b923-36f113194f8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).