2025 Regular Session • Louisiana Legislature
SB154
Legislative Summary
Criminalizes the possession or distribution of kratom. (8/1/25)
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Bill History
4/4/2025
Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
Senate
4/14/2025
Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
Senate
4/29/2025
Reported with amendments.
Senate
4/30/2025
Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
Senate
5/6/2025
Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 11 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
Senate
5/6/2025
Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
House of Representatives
5/7/2025
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
House of Representatives
5/14/2025
Reported favorably (10-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
House of Representatives
5/15/2025
Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
House of Representatives
5/19/2025
Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
House of Representatives
5/22/2025
Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2025.
House of Representatives
5/27/2025
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 5. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.
House of Representatives
5/27/2025
Received from the House without amendments.
Senate
5/28/2025
Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
Senate
5/28/2025
Signed by the Speaker of the House.
House of Representatives
5/29/2025
Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.
Senate
Amendments
Senate Committee Amendment #1019 JUDC Draft
Senate Committee Amendment #1019 JUDC Draft
Not Adopted
Senate Committee Amendment #816 JUDC Draft
Senate Committee Amendment #816 JUDC Draft
Not Adopted
Senate Committee Amendment #1018 JUDC Proposed
Senate Committee Amendment #1018 JUDC Proposed
Not Adopted
House Floor Amendment #3476 Amedee Proposed
House Floor Amendment #3476 Amedee Proposed
Not Adopted
House Floor Amendment #3496 Egan Proposed
House Floor Amendment #3496 Egan Proposed
Not Adopted
Roll Call Votes
House Vote on SB 154 AMENDMENT # 3476 BY AMEDEE MOTION TO ADOPT (#638)
5/27/2025
13
Yea
80
Nay
0
Not Voting
12
Absent
Result: FAILED
House Vote on SB 154 AMENDMENT # 3496 BY EGAN MOTION TO ADOPT (#639)
5/27/2025
16
Yea
72
Nay
0
Not Voting
17
Absent
Result: FAILED
House Vote on SB 154 FINAL PASSAGE (#640)
5/27/2025
89
Yea
5
Nay
0
Not Voting
11
Absent
Result: PASSED
Senate Vote on SB 154 FINAL PASSAGE (#150)
5/6/2025
26
Yea
11
Nay
0
Not Voting
2
Absent
Result: PASSED
Senate Vote on SB 154 CO-AUTHORS (#151)
5/6/2025
11
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
28
Absent
Result: PASSED
Status Information
Current Status
Enrolled(5/28/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Sponsors
Republican: 42
Democrat: 3
Primary Sponsor
John Morris
Republican
Co-Sponsors (44)
Adam Bass
Republican
Stewart Cathey
Republican
Heather Cloud
Republican
Patrick Connick
Republican
Rick Edmonds
Republican
Cameron Henry
Republican
Patrick McMath
Republican
Jeremy Stine
Republican
Kirk Talbot
Republican
William Wheat
Republican
Glen Womack
Republican
Daryl Adams
Democrat
Tony Bacala
Republican
Mike Bayham
Republican
Rhonda Butler
Republican
Dewith Carrier
Republican
Kimberly Coates
Republican
Vincent Cox
Republican
Daryl Deshotel
Republican
Phillip DeVillier
Republican
Jason DeWitt
Republican
Kellee Dickerson
Republican
Michael Echols
Republican
Kathy Edmonston
Republican
Gabe Firment
Republican
Bryan Fontenot
Republican
Troy Hebert
Republican
Stephanie Hilferty
Republican
Dodie Horton
Republican
Mike Johnson
Republican
Jacob Landry
Republican
Shane Mack
Republican
Jack McFarland
Republican
Dixon McMakin
Republican
Pat Moore
Democrat
Charles Owen
Republican
Rodney Schamerhorn
Republican
Laurie Schlegel
Republican
Joseph Stagni
Republican
Sylvia Taylor
Democrat
Francis Thompson
Republican
Christopher Turner
Republican
Debbie Villio
Republican
Roger Wilder
Republican