---
type: "Bill"
title: "PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to prescription"
description: "PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to prescription"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 81"
citation: "Louisiana HB 81 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas Pressly"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-08"
last_action: "2021-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/442cc0fb-1e62-4c2b-89fa-88d521e62bb6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239876"
source_hash: "1b9d31644718e5a7e3c9033e3be682e1e6f28857bd591257c82b365317564a41"
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 81 (2021) — PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to prescription

## Version chain

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

1. **HB81 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1202710)
2. **HB81 Act 414** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235915)
3. **HB81 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215424)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1375, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215370)
5. **HB81 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231500)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#57) — **95–3** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#733) — **25–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Thomas Pressly — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-21** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 414. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/3/2021.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 25 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-02** Called from the Calendar.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended.
- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-18** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2021.
- **2021-04-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-20** Reported with amendments (14-0-1).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/12/2021.
- **2021-03-09** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/442cc0fb-1e62-4c2b-89fa-88d521e62bb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).