--- type: "Bill" title: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to consumable hemp" description: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to consumable hemp" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "HB 36" citation: "Louisiana HB 36 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Laurie Schlegel"] version_count: 10 action_count: 36 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2025-03-06" last_action: "2025-06-20" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f2f4166-7143-4914-8ee1-408b4a92c810" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247922" source_hash: "d673020b748f5de0d4f667edd25afb887e186f3096a273437d10e322bfdee6e5" 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 36 (2025) — LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to consumable hemp ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB36 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1395632) 2. **Conference Committee Report, #4087, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421858) 3. **HB36 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425947) 4. **HB36 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409062) 5. **HB36 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411992) 6. **House Committee Amendment, #1319, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406173) 7. **House Committee Amendment, #1816, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409019) 8. **House Floor Amendment, #1922, Schlegel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409556) 9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2607, Pressly, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420302) 10. **HB36 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424802) ## Votes - ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1198) — **78–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#210) — **97–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#553) — **38–0** (pass) · upper - REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#866) — **94–0** (pass) · lower - ADOPT (#938) — **35–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Laurie Schlegel — primary (person) - Charles Owen — cosponsor (person) - Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person) - Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person) - Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person) - Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person) - Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person) - Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person) - Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person) - Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2025. - **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 345. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report. - **2025-06-11** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays. - **2025-06-11** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report. - **2025-06-11** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 78, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted. - **2025-06-11** Called from the calendar. - **2025-06-11** Read by title, returned to the calendar. - **2025-06-10** Conference committee report received. - **2025-06-10** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/11/2025. - **2025-06-10** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules. - **2025-06-09** Notice of Senate conferees appointed. - **2025-06-09** Senate conference committee members appointed: Bass, Pressly, and Talbot. - **2025-06-04** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed. - **2025-06-04** House conferees appointed: Schlegel, Muscarello, and Villio. - **2025-06-04** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments. - **2025-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending. - **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025. - **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt` - **2025-06-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2025-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2025-05-29** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-05-07** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2025-05-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2025-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025. - **2025-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2025-04-28** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee` - **2025-03-07** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/7/2025. - **2025-03-06** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee` - **2025-03-06** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f2f4166-7143-4914-8ee1-408b4a92c810`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).