Legislation: batch B — IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/la/2018/sb-337.md

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for an exemption to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law. (8/1/18)"
+description: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for an exemption to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law. (8/1/18)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 337"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 337 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-03-02"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db636270-7351-4fff-84d0-a58f377ad011"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234010"
+source_hash: "7187e65547d0df50fb6519b1591ef57f248d46dd2b9355ebc0c5644957e2e376"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana SB 337 (2018) — AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for an exemption to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law. (8/1/18)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB337 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1072650)
+2. **SB337 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097973)
+3. **SB337 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082000)
+4. **SB337 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1084950)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1941, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1081995)
+6. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2007, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082693)
+7. **SB337 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093798)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#323) — **36–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#782) — **90–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Neil Riser — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-15** Effective date 8/1/2018.
+- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 155. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-09** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-07** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2018-05-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/18.
+- **2018-04-23** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-04-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2018-04-18** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-11** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2018-04-10** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-04-04** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-04-03** Reported with amendments.
+- **2018-03-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db636270-7351-4fff-84d0-a58f377ad011`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+