---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Adds substances to the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law"
description: "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Adds substances to the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 204"
citation: "Louisiana HB 204 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Turner"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9839c83-3546-4e53-9cb6-82b7c93807ca"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245810"
source_hash: "0d7a2d66946d4e8bfcb3a9843efd99a6cf7a1f7142d3d8f794f700462a13ea65"
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 204 (2024) — CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Adds substances to the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law

## Version chain

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

1. **HB204 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346931)
2. **HB204 Act 110** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378129)
3. **HB204 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356963)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1232, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354496)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1327, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355229)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1545, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356684)
7. **HB204 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374825)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#734) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#109) — **105–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Christopher Turner — primary (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-21** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 110. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-15** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-17** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-16** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 105, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/26/2024.
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-21** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9839c83-3546-4e53-9cb6-82b7c93807ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).