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LouisianaHB 122025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

CRIME/MISDEMEANOR: Provides relative to the sale of consumable hemp products (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Laurie Schlegel (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary CAdministration of Criminal Justice

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Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.

Legal protections for compliant hemp businesses

Louisiana’s controlled-substances law does not apply to licensed hemp handling that follows state hemp requirements. Covered handling includes possession, storage, growing, trimming, drying, curing, and transport. Permitted processing, distribution, sales, and offers for sale receive the same protection when they follow state hemp requirements. Federally compliant hemp shipments can also cross Louisiana to the extent federal law allows. This transit protection covers movement from one Louisiana boundary to another, not other hemp activities.

Penalties for supplying hemp to under-21s

The law bans selling, distributing, dispensing, or delivering consumable hemp products to anyone under 21. The exception covers an establishment’s lawful owner or employee receiving products while acting in that role. Violations carry a $500 to $1,000 fine, 30 days to six months in jail, or both. Not knowing the recipient’s age is not a defense.

Under-21 hemp ban keeps citations off-record

People under 21 cannot buy or possess consumable hemp products. Violations carry a fine of up to $100. The person receives a citation payable like a local traffic violation. The citation does not appear on their criminal history record.

Hemp penalties include permit and product defenses

Knowingly or intentionally making, distributing, or dispensing consumable hemp against state hemp rules is a crime. Possessing it with intent to do those things is also covered. Penalties are one to ten years in prison, with or without hard labor, a fine up to $50,000, or both. A missing active permit alone does not create an offense during agency renewal review if the permit was valid when renewal was requested. State health department product approval also provides a defense; revoked approval remains protected through 60 days after revocation. Growing, possessing, processing, or selling industrial hemp, hemp products, or viable seeds must follow the 2018 federal Farm Bill or Louisiana’s federally compliant hemp plan.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Laurie Schlegel

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 239 • No: 0

House vote • 6/8/2025

Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 95 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/3/2025

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

House vote • 4/30/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 4/23/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 233.

    6/11/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/11/2025House

  3. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/9/2025House

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/9/2025Senate

  5. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/9/2025House

  6. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    6/8/2025House

  7. Called from the calendar.

    6/8/2025House

  8. Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    6/8/2025House

  9. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    6/4/2025House

  10. Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2025.

    6/4/2025House

  11. Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.

    6/3/2025Senate

  12. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/3/2025Senate

  13. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.

    5/28/2025Senate

  14. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/20/2025Senate

  15. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/19/2025Senate

  16. Reported with amendments.

    5/14/2025Senate

  17. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.

    5/6/2025Senate

  18. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    5/5/2025Senate

  19. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/30/2025House

  20. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2025.

    4/28/2025House

  21. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/24/2025House

  22. Reported with amendments (10-0).

    4/23/2025House

  23. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

    4/14/2025House

  24. Prefiled.

    2/21/2025House

  25. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

    2/21/2025House

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