---
type: "Bill"
title: "PHARMACEUTICALS: Provides relative to the dispensing of ivermectin. (gov sig)"
description: "PHARMACEUTICALS: Provides relative to the dispensing of ivermectin. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 19"
citation: "Louisiana SB 19 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael \"Big Mike\" Fesi"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-24"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/974f2e6c-2976-4544-8ad8-2d2f30b12c97"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248009"
source_hash: "c5cb3b2b3374040471d481c4f1074efbc834b9b745cc7a4d6f6a127c17d5bf49"
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 19 (2025) — PHARMACEUTICALS: Provides relative to the dispensing of ivermectin. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB19 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1398194)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3268, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416804)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3299, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416985)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3604, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418931)
5. **SB19 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426852)
6. **SB19 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408110)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #579, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406124)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #699, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406973)
9. **SB19 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423679)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#124) — **28–8** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#844) — **67–26** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#845) — **31–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 6/20/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 464. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-10** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 31 yeas and 4 nays.
- **2025-06-04** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 26. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-28** Reported with amendments (10-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-05** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-30** Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 8 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-28** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** 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/974f2e6c-2976-4544-8ad8-2d2f30b12c97`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).