republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024s2/hb-8.md

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Bill	CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to distribution of fentanyl under certain circumstances (Item #24) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to distribution of fentanyl under certain circumstances (Item #24) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024s2	HB 8	Louisiana HB 8 (2024s2)	bill		enacted	Laurie Schlegel	7	18	3	2024-02-08	2024-03-06	openstates	ocd-bill/1dec4e55-d004-4ab3-ac01-21cbe28f134a	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245600	848ba5d5059c99c81394deb97d8c95a517b74a2db886acdd48140e61f099fe5b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 8 (2024s2) — CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to distribution of fentanyl under certain circumstances (Item #24) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB8 Original (filed) — source
2. HB8 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB8 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB8 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #104, Schlegel, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #114, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. HB8 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#56) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• CRIMINAL JUSTICE (#11) — 73–29 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#37) — 92–13 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Laurie Schlegel — primary (person)
• Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
• Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
• Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
• Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Jacob Braud — cosponsor (person)
• Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
• Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
• John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
• Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-03-06 Effective date: 04/29/2024.
• 2024-03-06 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 19. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-02-29 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-02-29 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-02-28 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2024-02-28 Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-02-27 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-25 Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 13. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-02-21 Scheduled for floor debate on 02/22/2024.
• 2024-02-21 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Reported favorably (14-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-19 Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2024-02-09 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/9/2024.
• 2024-02-08 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2024-02-08 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1dec4e55-d004-4ab3-ac01-21cbe28f134a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).