Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING -- Sen. Fred Mills, R-Parks, right, gestures while talking with Rep. Helena Moreno, D-New Orleans, right, while working the House floor Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge. His medical Senate Bill 271 on medical marijuana was on the House agenda to come up later . Rep. Ted James, D-Baton Rouge, center, had previously deferred his own medical marijuana bill in a House committee.