---
type: "Bill"
title: "PHARMACEUTICALS: Provides relative to marijuana for therapeutic use. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)"
description: "PHARMACEUTICALS: Provides relative to marijuana for therapeutic use. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 228"
citation: "Louisiana SB 228 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bd76ef7-402b-4f3e-8659-9530e4d9bbea"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246388"
source_hash: "1dac54e156d0b593940268b6f9bad834811d71354c10d4962d6e446381cf031e"
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 228 (2024) — PHARMACEUTICALS: Provides relative to marijuana for therapeutic use. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB228 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352019)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2710, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364458)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3054, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365672)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3198, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366423)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3233, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366829)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #4483, Butler, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373501)
7. **SB228 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379423)
8. **SB228 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356297)
9. **SB228 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358521)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #764, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354263)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #941, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355706)
12. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1093, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356991)
13. **SB228 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374543)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#697) — **37–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#152) — **32–5** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1014) — **89–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Patrick McMath — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-22** Effective date 5/22/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 150. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-14** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2024-05-13** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-13** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2024.
- **2024-05-06** Notice given.
- **2024-05-06** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-17** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-26** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 5 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-20** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** 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/2bd76ef7-402b-4f3e-8659-9530e4d9bbea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).