Louisiana 2019 Regular Session Status: Enacted Bipartisan · 10 D · 7 R cosponsors

HB 491 — AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for the regulation of industrial hemp (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)

Last action — Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 164.

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed House
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced March 29, 2019. Enacted.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 98% · high confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 54 sponsors

    1 primary, 53 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Bipartisan support

    Sponsored across 2 parties (10 D · 7 R) — cross-party backing.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 3 recorded votes so far.

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Action History

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 164.

  2. Effective date: See Act.

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

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

  5. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

  7. Received from the Senate with amendments.

  8. Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.

  9. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

  10. Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

  11. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  12. Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.

  13. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.

  14. Reported with amendments.

  15. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.

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

  17. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

  18. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/19.

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

  20. Reported with amendments (15-0).

  21. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.

  22. Prefiled.

  23. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.

Sponsors

  • Clay Schexnayder · Primary
  • T. Landry · Cosponsor
  • Beryl Amedee · Cosponsor
  • Andy Anders · Cosponsor
  • John Bagneris · Cosponsor
  • Taylor F. Barras · Cosponsor
  • Joseph Bouie · Cosponsor
  • Ken Brass · Cosponsor
  • Chad Brown · Cosponsor
  • Terry Brown · Cosponsor
  • Thomas Carmody · Cosponsor
  • Gary Carter · Cosponsor
  • Steve Carter · Cosponsor
  • Patrick Connick · Cosponsor
  • Jean-Paul Coussan · Cosponsor
  • Paula Davis · Cosponsor
  • Royce Duplessis · Cosponsor
  • Julie Emerson · Cosponsor
  • Franklin J. Foil · Cosponsor
  • Randal L. Gaines · Cosponsor
  • Jerry "Truck" Gisclair · Cosponsor
  • Cedric Glover · Cosponsor
  • John E. "Johnny" Guinn · Cosponsor
  • Jimmy Harris · Cosponsor
  • Lance Harris · Cosponsor
  • Frankie Howard · Cosponsor
  • Edward Ted James · Cosponsor
  • Patrick O. Jefferson · Cosponsor
  • Samuel Jenkins · Cosponsor
  • Edmond Jordan · Cosponsor
  • Nancy Landry · Cosponsor
  • Ed Larvadain III · Cosponsor
  • III Walt Leger · Cosponsor
  • Rodney Lyons · Cosponsor
  • C. Denise Marcelle · Cosponsor
  • Joseph Marino · Cosponsor
  • Wayne McMahen · Cosponsor
  • Dustin Miller · Cosponsor
  • Barbara Norton · Cosponsor
  • Vincent J. Pierre · Cosponsor
  • Steven E. Pylant · Cosponsor
  • Joe Stagni · Cosponsor
  • Julie Stokes · Cosponsor
  • Christopher Turner · Cosponsor
  • Ryan Gatti · Cosponsor
  • Mike Walsworth · Cosponsor
  • Nicholas Muscarello · Cosponsor
  • Jeremy LaCombe · Cosponsor
  • Phillip DeVillier · Cosponsor
  • Barbara Carpenter · Cosponsor
  • Ryan Bourriaque · Cosponsor
  • Roy Daryl Adams · Cosponsor
  • Vincent E. Cox III · Cosponsor
  • Steven Jackson · Cosponsor

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 53 co-sponsors · 93 not signed on · 1 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Clay Schexnayder

Co-sponsors (53)

Not signed on (93)

93 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Votes

CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#904)

Passed 96 Yea · 0 Nay · 9 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 55005
Democrat 14002
Republican 27002
Total 96009
% of votes cast 91%0%0%9%
How each member voted (105)
Member Party Vote
Huval — Yea
Jefferson — Yea
Leger — Yea
Leopold — Not Voting
Magee — Yea
Marino — Yea
Glover — Yea
Guinn — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hoffmann — Yea
Mr. Speaker — Yea
Hollis — Yea
LeBas — Yea
Norton — Yea
Pearson — Yea
Bishop — Yea
Moss — Yea
Brown, C. — Yea
Amedee — Yea
Anders — Yea
Billiot — Yea
Bouie — Yea
Dwight — Yea
Brown, T. — Yea
Henry — Not Voting
Carter, S. — Yea
Howard — Yea
Smith — Yea
Ivey — Yea
James — Yea
Johnson, R. — Yea
Jones — Yea
White — Yea
DuBuisson — Yea
Landry, N. — Yea
Carmody — Yea
Coussan — Yea
Davis — Yea
Falconer — Not Voting
Pierre — Yea
Pugh — Yea
Pylant — Yea
Schexnayder — Yea
Simon — Yea
Stagni — Yea
Stokes — Not Voting
Richard — Yea
Pope — Not Voting
Stefanski — Yea
Abramson — Yea
Armes — Yea
Bagneris — Yea
Berthelot — Yea
Chaney — Yea
Emerson — Yea
Franklin — Yea
Gaines — Yea
Garofalo — Yea
Gisclair — Yea
Landry, T. — Yea
Barbara Carpenter Democrat Yea
C. Denise Marcelle Democrat Not Voting
Dustin Miller Democrat Not Voting
Edmond Jordan Democrat Yea
Gary Carter Democrat Yea
III, Ed Larvadain Democrat Yea
Jimmy Harris Democrat Yea
Jimmy Harris Democrat Yea
Ken Brass Democrat Yea
Pat Moore Democrat Yea
Robby Carter Democrat Yea
Rodney Lyons Democrat Yea
Roy Daryl Adams Democrat Yea
Royce Duplessis Democrat Yea
Sam Jenkins Democrat Yea
Steven Jackson Democrat Yea
Alan Seabaugh Republican Yea
Blake Miguez Republican Yea
Christopher Turner Republican Yea
Dodie Horton Republican Yea
Franklin J. Foil Republican Yea
Gregory A. Miller Republican Yea
III, Vincent E. Cox Republican Yea
Jack McFarland Republican Yea
Jeremy LaCombe Republican Yea
Jerome Zeringue Republican Yea
John C. "Jay" Morris Republican Yea
John C. "Jay" Morris Republican Not Voting
Kirk Talbot Republican Not Voting
Larry A. Bagley Republican Yea
Mark Abraham Republican Yea
Mark Wright Republican Yea
Mike Johnson Republican Yea
Nicholas Muscarello Republican Yea
Patrick Connick Republican Yea
Phillip DeVillier Republican Yea
Polly Thomas Republican Yea
Raymond J. Crews Republican Yea
Rick Edmonds Republican Yea
Ryan Bourriaque Republican Yea
Shane Mack Republican Yea
Stephanie Hilferty Republican Yea
Tony Bacala Republican Yea
Valarie Hodges Republican Yea
Wayne McMahen Republican Yea

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FINAL PASSAGE (#757)

Passed 34 Yea · 2 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 22203
Democrat 5000
Republican 7000
Total 34203
% of votes cast 87%5%0%8%
How each member voted (39)
Member Party Vote
Long — Yea
Martiny — Yea
Milkovich — Nay
Hewitt — Yea
Johns — Yea
Mr. President — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Smith, G. — Yea
Bishop — Yea
Smith, J. — Yea
Peacock — Yea
White — Yea
Fannin — Nay
Appel — Yea
Chabert — Yea
Donahue — Yea
Erdey — Yea
Walsworth — Yea
Ward — Yea
Carter — Not Voting
Peterson — Not Voting
Colomb — Not Voting
Mills — Yea
Morrish — Yea
Claitor — Yea
Cortez — Yea
Gatti — Yea
Edward J. Price Democrat Yea
Gerald Boudreaux Democrat Yea
Jay Luneau Democrat Yea
Regina Barrow Democrat Yea
Vanessa Caston LaFleur Democrat Yea
Beth Mizell Republican Yea
Bob Hensgens Republican Yea
Eddie J. Lambert Republican Yea
Francis C. Thompson Republican Yea
Neil Riser Republican Yea
Phillip Eric Tarver Republican Yea
Robert Allain Republican Yea

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FINAL PASSAGE (#196)

Passed 101 Yea · 1 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Republican 26102
Unaffiliated 60000
Democrat 15001
Total 101103
% of votes cast 96%1%0%3%
How each member voted (105)
Member Party Vote
Ivey — Yea
Leopold — Yea
Magee — Yea
Marino — Yea
Mr. Speaker — Yea
Glover — Yea
Guinn — Yea
Henry — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hoffmann — Yea
Hollis — Yea
Howard — Yea
Huval — Yea
James — Yea
Bishop — Yea
Moss — Yea
Jefferson — Yea
Norton — Yea
Pearson — Yea
Brown, C. — Yea
Brown, T. — Yea
Pierre — Yea
Pope — Yea
Amedee — Yea
Anders — Yea
Billiot — Yea
Bouie — Yea
Carmody — Yea
Gaines — Yea
Garofalo — Yea
Pugh — Yea
Pylant — Yea
Richard — Yea
Carter, S. — Yea
Johnson, R. — Yea
Smith — Yea
Jones — Yea
DuBuisson — Yea
Landry, N. — Yea
LeBas — Yea
White — Yea
Leger — Yea
Schexnayder — Yea
Chaney — Yea
Coussan — Yea
Davis — Yea
Emerson — Yea
Simon — Yea
Stagni — Yea
Stefanski — Yea
Stokes — Yea
Abramson — Yea
Armes — Yea
Bagneris — Yea
Berthelot — Yea
Dwight — Yea
Falconer — Yea
Franklin — Yea
Gisclair — Yea
Landry, T. — Yea
Barbara Carpenter Democrat Yea
C. Denise Marcelle Democrat Yea
Dustin Miller Democrat Yea
Edmond Jordan Democrat Yea
Gary Carter Democrat Yea
III, Ed Larvadain Democrat Yea
Jimmy Harris Democrat Yea
Jimmy Harris Democrat Yea
Ken Brass Democrat Yea
Pat Moore Democrat Yea
Robby Carter Democrat Not Voting
Rodney Lyons Democrat Yea
Roy Daryl Adams Democrat Yea
Royce Duplessis Democrat Yea
Sam Jenkins Democrat Yea
Steven Jackson Democrat Yea
Alan Seabaugh Republican Yea
Blake Miguez Republican Yea
Christopher Turner Republican Yea
Dodie Horton Republican Yea
Franklin J. Foil Republican Yea
Gregory A. Miller Republican Yea
III, Vincent E. Cox Republican Yea
Jack McFarland Republican Yea
Jeremy LaCombe Republican Yea
Jerome Zeringue Republican Yea
John C. "Jay" Morris Republican Yea
John C. "Jay" Morris Republican Yea
Kirk Talbot Republican Yea
Larry A. Bagley Republican Yea
Mark Abraham Republican Yea
Mark Wright Republican Yea
Mike Johnson Republican Yea
Nicholas Muscarello Republican Yea
Patrick Connick Republican Not Voting
Phillip DeVillier Republican Yea
Polly Thomas Republican Not Voting
Raymond J. Crews Republican Nay
Rick Edmonds Republican Yea
Ryan Bourriaque Republican Yea
Shane Mack Republican Yea
Stephanie Hilferty Republican Yea
Tony Bacala Republican Yea
Valarie Hodges Republican Yea
Wayne McMahen Republican Yea

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors HB 491?
HB 491 is sponsored by Clay Schexnayder, Landry, T., Beryl Amedee, Andy Anders, John Bagneris, Taylor F. Barras, Joseph Bouie, Ken Brass (Democrat), Chad Brown, Terry Brown, Thomas Carmody, Gary Carter, Steve Carter, Patrick Connick, Jean-Paul Coussan, Paula Davis, Royce Duplessis (Democrat), Julie Emerson, Franklin J. Foil, Randal L. Gaines, Jerry "Truck" Gisclair, Cedric Glover, John E. "Johnny" Guinn, Jimmy Harris, Lance Harris, Frankie Howard, Edward Ted James, Patrick O. Jefferson, Samuel Jenkins, Edmond Jordan (Democrat), Nancy Landry, III, Ed Larvadain (Democrat), Walt Leger, III, Rodney Lyons (Democrat), C. Denise Marcelle (Democrat), Joseph Marino, Wayne McMahen (Republican), Dustin Miller (Democrat), Barbara Norton, Vincent J. Pierre, Steven E. Pylant, Joe Stagni, Julie Stokes, Christopher Turner (Republican), Ryan Gatti, Mike Walsworth, Nicholas Muscarello (Republican), Jeremy LaCombe (Republican), Phillip DeVillier (Republican), Barbara Carpenter (Democrat), Ryan Bourriaque (Republican), Roy Daryl Adams (Democrat), III, Vincent E. Cox (Republican), and Steven Jackson (Democrat).
What is the current status of HB 491?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced March 29, 2019. Enacted.
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