SLS 20RS-541 ORIGINAL
2020 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 267
BY SENATOR BOUDREAUX
HEALTH CARE. Removes the sunset provision for the authorization of use of therapeutic
marijuana. (8/1/20)
1 AN ACT
2 To repeal R.S. 40:1046(K), relative to the sunset provision for the authorization of use of
3 therapeutic marijuana; to repeal the termination date; and to provide for related
4 matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 40:1046(K) is hereby repealed.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Christine Arbo Peck.
DIGEST
SB 267 Original 2020 Regular Session Boudreaux
Present law authorizes the therapeutic use of marijuana by certain patients with debilitating
medical conditions if a physician approved to recommend medical marijuana by the
Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners recommends it, the medical marijuana is
produced by a producer regulated by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, and it is
dispensed by a pharmacy permitted to dispense medical marijuana by the Louisiana State
Board of Pharmacy. Proposed law retains present law relative to the oversight and regulation
of therapeutic marijuana.
Present law terminates on January 1, 2025. Proposed law repeals the termination date.
Effective August 1, 2020.
(Repeals R.S. 40:1046(K))
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.