---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONTROL DANGER SUBSTANCE: Provides relative to schedules of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law. (8/1/23)"
description: "CONTROL DANGER SUBSTANCE: Provides relative to schedules of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law. (8/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 14"
citation: "Louisiana SB 14 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Louie Bernard"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-02-23"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e501967e-9652-4802-899e-a9f794a1405d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243857"
source_hash: "0030bf7542566d94fdf2450d504101717595de60f5950ae6e023440915003fc9"
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 SB 14 (2023) — CONTROL DANGER SUBSTANCE: Provides relative to schedules of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law. (8/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB14 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1300789)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2879, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321860)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3112, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323166)
4. **SB14 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332211)
5. **SB14 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313121)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #497, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311944)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #600, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312922)
8. **SB14 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329338)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#654) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#807) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#72) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Louie Bernard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-08** Effective date 8/1/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 201. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-05-31** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-31** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/31/2023.
- **2023-05-22** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-17** Reported with amendments (9-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-25** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-24** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-18** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e501967e-9652-4802-899e-a9f794a1405d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).