---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH: Exempts certain facilities that provide home dialysis drugs or devices from the provisions of the La. Pharmacy Practice Act"
description: "HEALTH: Exempts certain facilities that provide home dialysis drugs or devices from the provisions of the La. Pharmacy Practice Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 497"
citation: "Louisiana HB 497 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Turner"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2eebe91-d27d-4657-b6eb-fa2f92a28aca"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242254"
source_hash: "2e3585141c97664b7d673d7a5c6254adf37728c6b60672714d4808ec813f7aab"
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 497 (2022) — HEALTH: Exempts certain facilities that provide home dialysis drugs or devices from the provisions of the La. Pharmacy Practice Act

## Version chain

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

1. **HB497 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1256053)
2. **HB497 Act 154** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286091)
3. **HB497 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261589)
4. **HB497 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280436)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#181) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#675) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Christopher Turner — primary (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 154. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/19/2022.
- **2022-05-19** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-17** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-12** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-11** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-05** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-04-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/05/2022.
- **2022-04-04** Notice given.
- **2022-04-04** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2022-03-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2022.
- **2022-03-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-23** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a2eebe91-d27d-4657-b6eb-fa2f92a28aca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).