EMPLOYMENT/DISCRIMINATN: Provides relative to employment discrimination against certain employees being treated with medical marijuana
This bill clarifies how employment laws apply to workers who use medical marijuana. It ensures that employees cannot be fired or disciplined solely for having a valid medical marijuana prescription, but it explicitly allows employers to take action if an employee uses the drug or is impaired while on the job or driving company vehicles. The changes specifically protect workers from discrimination based on their medical status while maintaining safety rules for those operating vehicles or heavy equipment during work hours.
Bill status
failed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
Apr 2024
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 28, 2024
Last action May 28, 2024
Floor votes · House Apr 24, 2024
How they voted
63–33
Passed · 6 other
Total votes 102
Apr 24, 2024
D
Democratic32
96% Yea
R
Republican70
45% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
19
Key actions
4
Committee
7
May 16, 2024
Committee
Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 15, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
upper
Apr 24, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 63, nays 35. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 18, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (14-3).
lower
Apr 3, 2024
Committee
Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
lower
Apr 3, 2024
Lower · Passed
Discharged from the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
lower
Feb 28, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
lower
1 primary · 10 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Mandie Landry
DDemocratic
Co
Alonzo Knox
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Carpenter
DDemocratic
Co
Candace Newell
DDemocratic
Co
Dustin Miller
DDemocratic
Co
Joy Walters
DDemocratic
Co
Kyle Green
DDemocratic
Co
Steven Jackson
DDemocratic
Co
Sylvia Taylor
DDemocratic
Co
Tehmi Chassion
DDemocratic
Co
Wilford Carter
DDemocratic
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