---
type: "Bill"
title: "HOSPITALS: Provides for hospital drug screenings. (8/1/24)"
description: "HOSPITALS: Provides for hospital drug screenings. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 487"
citation: "Louisiana SB 487 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stewart Cathey , Jr."]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/723cab98-4123-4e5a-8a2c-9db746dd6164"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247185"
source_hash: "f59a803be065fbe4949ed737832899295a0ef27c56ffc43ece595c5ff22591be"
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 487 (2024) — HOSPITALS: Provides for hospital drug screenings. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB487 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361487)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4914, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376647)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4954, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377030)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #5183, Freeman, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378739)
5. **SB487 Act 769** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382659)
6. **SB487 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368981)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2424, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368588)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2468, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368773)
9. **SB487 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380012)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#450) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1432) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#1281) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — primary (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 769. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-28** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-21** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-01** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-30** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-30** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-04-24** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Rules suspended. Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/723cab98-4123-4e5a-8a2c-9db746dd6164`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).