---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/BEHAVIORAL: Revises the Addictive Disorders Practice Act"
description: "HEALTH/BEHAVIORAL: Revises the Addictive Disorders Practice Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 822"
citation: "Louisiana HB 822 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Carter"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-03-31"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad784eab-25a9-4b32-8c2d-1c4c43b7ccd4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238777"
source_hash: "66b5b20949312cd566e6f0f8341410d9e4d4edd0a9adda12b0202fc38bcdf426"
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 822 (2020) — HEALTH/BEHAVIORAL: Revises the Addictive Disorders Practice Act

## Version chain

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

1. **HB822 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1168110)
2. **HB822 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182517)
3. **HB822 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174154)
4. **HB822 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175549)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2108, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173346)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2269, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174120)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1758, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174373)
8. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2224, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177095)
9. **HB822 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178361)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#506) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#365) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#636) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robert Carter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 328. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-31** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-27** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-20** Reported with amendments (15-0).
- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-31** 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/ad784eab-25a9-4b32-8c2d-1c4c43b7ccd4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).