---
type: "Bill"
title: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides for the Drug Policy Board"
description: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides for the Drug Policy Board"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 316"
citation: "Louisiana HB 316 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rhonda Butler"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ce4ad61-7a42-4d42-af18-ff26c03d6f19"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248281"
source_hash: "db40874521f5c00a979c06d27dcf1a415c15dff865c542d5cab283a26ac1bda5"
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 316 (2025) — BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides for the Drug Policy Board

## Version chain

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

1. **HB316 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402286)
2. **HB316 Act 78** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422291)
3. **HB316 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406043)
4. **HB316 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408423)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1144, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405207)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1285, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406000)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1635, Butler, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408216)
8. **HB316 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419252)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#28) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#441) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rhonda Butler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 78. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/29/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-24** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.
- **2025-04-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ce4ad61-7a42-4d42-af18-ff26c03d6f19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).