republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-579.md

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Bill	PHARMACISTS: Provides relative to pharmacist authorization to dispense HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis	PHARMACISTS: Provides relative to pharmacist authorization to dispense HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 579	Louisiana HB 579 (2024)	bill		enacted	Wayne McMahen	14	28	3	2024-03-01	2024-06-19	openstates	ocd-bill/52300fd4-90ce-4c0a-ad01-a80e1b52db03	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246337	d3c1caedd66dd1434db67f383291d764779461da1352862d00f5e42a4c8c8c4e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 579 (2024) — PHARMACISTS: Provides relative to pharmacist authorization to dispense HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis

Version chain

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

1. HB579 Original (filed) — source
2. HB579 Act 711 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB579 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB579 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1972, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2279, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #2680, McMahen, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #2793, McMahen, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #2718, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #2813, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #2892, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Floor Amendment, #3754, Wheat, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Floor Amendment, #3795, Wheat, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. HB579 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1548) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#425) — 102–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1069) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wayne McMahen — primary (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
• Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
• Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
• Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-19 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-06-19 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 711. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-06-04 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-06-02 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-31 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-29 Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, 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
• 2024-05-21 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-21 Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
• 2024-05-16 Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
• 2024-05-16 Rules suspended.
• 2024-05-07 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-06 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-01 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 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-10 Called from the calendar.
• 2024-04-09 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
• 2024-04-09 Notice given.
• 2024-04-09 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2024-04-08 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2024.
• 2024-04-04 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-03 Reported with amendments (15-0). 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; origin ocd-bill/52300fd4-90ce-4c0a-ad01-a80e1b52db03. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).