CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Provides relative to penalties for possession of marijuana (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2021
Committee Review
May 2021
House Passage
May 2021
Senate Passage
Jun 2021
Signed into Law
Jun 2021
Introduced Apr 2, 2021
Signed Jun 14, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Jun 7, 2021 · House May 11, 2021
How they voted
20–16
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 37
Jun 7, 2021
D
Democratic11
100% Yea
R
Republican26
61% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
3
Committee
5
Amendments
2
Jun 14, 2021
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 247.
Jun 7, 2021
House · Amendment offered
Received from the Senate without amendments.
Jun 7, 2021
Senate · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 20 yeas and 17 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
May 26, 2021
Senate · Referred to committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
May 25, 2021
Senate · Reported by committee
Reported favorably.
May 13, 2021
Senate · Referred to committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
May 11, 2021
House · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 68, nays 25. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
May 4, 2021
House · Amendment offered
Reported with amendments (12-0).
Apr 12, 2021
House · Referred to committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
Apr 2, 2021
House · Referred to committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
1 primary · 10 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Cedric Glover
DDemocratic
Co
Denise Marcelle
DDemocratic
Co
FD
Frederick Douglass Jones
DDemocratic
Co
Jason Hughes
DDemocratic
Co
Kenny R. Cox
DDemocratic
Co
Kyle Green
DDemocratic
Co
LS
Larry Selders
DDemocratic
Co
Mandie Landry
DDemocratic
Co
Richard Nelson
RRepublican
Co
Vincent J. Pierre
DDemocratic
Co
Wilford Carter
DDemocratic
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