---
type: "Bill"
title: "DRUGS/PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to the 340B drug pricing program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "DRUGS/PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to the 340B drug pricing program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 548"
citation: "Louisiana HB 548 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Turner"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a7a590f-f1e6-4edc-aac4-ed36e8e3e8b3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244536"
source_hash: "2660abdf320e21e191327a7a5938654d8b4bb76a7e3606d7de55c6e8a18670ce"
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 548 (2023) — DRUGS/PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to the 340B drug pricing program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB548 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309717)
2. **HB548 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332515)
3. **HB548 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314326)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1245, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312235)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1432, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313653)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1541, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314165)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1217, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318152)
8. **HB548 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329490)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#722) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#135) — **97–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Christopher Turner — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 358. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-10** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/2023.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8a7a590f-f1e6-4edc-aac4-ed36e8e3e8b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).