---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to penalties for possession of marijuana (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to penalties for possession of marijuana (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 652"
citation: "Louisiana HB 652 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cedric Glover"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7abae4d8-db41-4ff3-95a8-b98895b50dcf"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240648"
source_hash: "25c358213272b12b967c9d8dfe51e4a1d7fb69165492cf5acee0516e26033e60"
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 652 (2021) — CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to penalties for possession of marijuana (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB652 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212370)
2. **HB652 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235328)
3. **HB652 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220634)
4. **HB652 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223745)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2221, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220542)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2511, Marcelle, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222321)
7. **HB652 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232970)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#857) — **20–17** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#387) — **68–25** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2511 BY MARCELLE, MOTION TO ADOPT (#386) — **71–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cedric Glover — primary (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 247. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 20 yeas and 17 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-25** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-11** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 68, nays 25. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-04** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7abae4d8-db41-4ff3-95a8-b98895b50dcf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).