---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Authorizes the recommendation of medical marijuana in raw or crude form and limits the dispensing of such product"
description: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Authorizes the recommendation of medical marijuana in raw or crude form and limits the dispensing of such product"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 391"
citation: "Louisiana HB 391 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tanner Magee"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea8ef080-9d10-4054-9e35-72a1d46b09f3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240303"
source_hash: "fc092e5aed97906f84325c61c57b6665da183b3a3897e901a2397150123fe39b"
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 391 (2021) — MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Authorizes the recommendation of medical marijuana in raw or crude form and limits the dispensing of such product

## Version chain

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

1. **HB391 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210608)
2. **HB391 Act 424** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235925)
3. **HB391 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216794)
4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2049, Ward, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224756)
5. **HB391 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231022)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#156) — **73–26** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#574) — **23–14** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#931) — **75–18** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#573) — **26–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tanner Magee — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-21** Effective date: 01/01/2022.
- **2021-06-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 424. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 75, nays 18, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2021.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 23 yeas and 14 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-27** Reconsidered.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-12** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-04** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 26. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/2021.
- **2021-04-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-26** Reported favorably (12-1).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ea8ef080-9d10-4054-9e35-72a1d46b09f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).