---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Provides relative to fees collected by the Louisiana Department of Health related to the sale of therapeutic marijuana (EN +$225,000 SG RV See Note)"
description: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Provides relative to fees collected by the Louisiana Department of Health related to the sale of therapeutic marijuana (EN +$225,000 SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 657"
citation: "Louisiana HB 657 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-23"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbb2b425-c61a-4a4e-8e86-b2085d2a03a0"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248924"
source_hash: "569d065ad028ef25f1355cce5e2cd10f475a03d11ef513fa2f565c0f187abba1"
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 657 (2025) — MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Provides relative to fees collected by the Louisiana Department of Health related to the sale of therapeutic marijuana (EN +$225,000 SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB657 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407693)
2. **HB657 Act 513** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427708)
3. **HB657 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415209)
4. **HB657 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416629)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2785, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414349)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2923, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415183)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1834, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415533)
8. **HB657 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423393)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#494) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#791) — **35–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Neil Riser — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-07-01** Becomes Act No. 513 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 4 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
- **2025-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbb2b425-c61a-4a4e-8e86-b2085d2a03a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).