---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONTROL DANGER SUBSTANCE: Provides relative to drug paraphernalia. (gov sig)"
description: "CONTROL DANGER SUBSTANCE: Provides relative to drug paraphernalia. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 78"
citation: "Louisiana SB 78 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brach Myers"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45da0964-742e-4bc8-b6cf-5616b654cee9"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248234"
source_hash: "946ab3467638da3e7db74cfbc81e93a3f53ceaeeead337f5efaa4a2533216a1b"
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 78 (2025) — CONTROL DANGER SUBSTANCE: Provides relative to drug paraphernalia. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB78 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402076)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3355, Miller, D., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417297)
3. **SB78 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424925)
4. **SB78 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405686)
5. **SB78 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407342)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #494, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405503)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #497, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405511)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #740, Myers, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407239)
9. **SB78 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421276)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#632) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#26) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#746) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brach Myers — primary (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date 6/8/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 102. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/5/2025. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-02** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.
- **2025-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-20** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-22** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-15** 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 Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45da0964-742e-4bc8-b6cf-5616b654cee9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).