---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH: Provides relative to stock emergency medications"
description: "HEALTH: Provides relative to stock emergency medications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 602"
citation: "Louisiana HB 602 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paula Davis"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b390066-9a4a-41e7-81bc-388a7cc2dca9"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246408"
source_hash: "48382c66195b825e77a6360cb74570c252059c90caefd6eb0fa2fd6002ba5d1f"
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 602 (2024) — HEALTH: Provides relative to stock emergency medications

## Version chain

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

1. **HB602 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352166)
2. **HB602 Act 657** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382682)
3. **HB602 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362531)
4. **HB602 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364568)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1497, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356211)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2385, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362438)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1645, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362729)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3070, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372016)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3205, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372597)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3603, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374701)
11. **HB602 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379872)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1549) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1098) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#401) — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Paula Davis — primary (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-18** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-18** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 657. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. 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`
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-04** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b390066-9a4a-41e7-81bc-388a7cc2dca9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).