---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Provides relative to the dispensing of medical marijuana"
description: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Provides relative to the dispensing of medical marijuana"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 460"
citation: "Louisiana HB 460 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert \"Bob\" Owen"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5364289-27df-4818-82b0-487120e2cc0b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244416"
source_hash: "6327ddd158806d08e58b27b812e3dd7f180d927a5811498f9583872616154139"
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 460 (2023) — MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Provides relative to the dispensing of medical marijuana

## Version chain

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

1. **HB460 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309095)
2. **HB460 Act 311** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332464)
3. **HB460 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316240)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1851, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315981)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1877, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316199)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2613, Marino, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320387)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1714, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321896)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2163, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325552)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2323, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326596)
10. **HB460 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330883)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1086) — **88–5** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#263) — **72–25** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2613 BY MARINO, MOTION TO ADOPT (#262) — **12–85** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#770) — **25–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robert "Bob" Owen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-13** Effective date: 06/13/2023.
- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 311. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 88, nays 5, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 25 yeas and 12 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-25** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-24** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-09** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 72, nays 25. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/09/2023.
- **2023-04-27** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b5364289-27df-4818-82b0-487120e2cc0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).