---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS: Provides relative to mandatory drug testing, screening, and assessment for drug and specialty court participation for certain offenders (Item #10) (REF SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
description: "COURTS: Provides relative to mandatory drug testing, screening, and assessment for drug and specialty court participation for certain offenders (Item #10) (REF SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024s2"
identifier: "HB 3"
citation: "Louisiana HB 3 (2024s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rhonda Butler"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-08"
last_action: "2024-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46f14d8a-21e1-47a5-a24a-5f6a8c76587d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245595"
source_hash: "d39531eff3983474b55dda08df096fcdfa7b20a390033652c94669ebf3ed1edf"
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 3 (2024s2) — COURTS: Provides relative to mandatory drug testing, screening, and assessment for drug and specialty court participation for certain offenders (Item #10) (REF SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB3 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1342724)
2. **HB3 Act 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353034)
3. **HB3 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344292)
4. **HB3 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345333)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #107, Butler, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344991)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #116, Jordan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345199)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #363, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350334)
8. **HB3 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350476)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 116 BY JORDAN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#29) — **96–6** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#94) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#79) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- JUDICIARY (#6) — **73–29** (pass) · lower
- SUSPEND THE RULES (#22) — **73–28** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#30) — **105–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rhonda Butler — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Braud — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-05** Effective date: 07/01/2024.
- **2024-03-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 4. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-02-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-02-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-02-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-02-29** Rules suspended.
- **2024-02-29** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-26** Rules suspended. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2024-02-26** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 105, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 02/22/2024.
- **2024-02-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Rules suspended.
- **2024-02-20** Reported favorably (16-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-19** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/9/2024.
- **2024-02-08** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/46f14d8a-21e1-47a5-a24a-5f6a8c76587d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).