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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for the regulation of industrial hemp (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)"
+description: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for the regulation of industrial hemp (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 491"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 491 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Clay Schexnayder"]
+version_count: 13
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-29"
+last_action: "2019-06-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/444ff036-a685-40f5-936d-2778c1418496"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236337"
+source_hash: "2cf5f58b2b2b14ff641518529436b22dec1edd7d89e978342f411c670a821bb9"
+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 HB 491 (2019) — AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for the regulation of industrial hemp (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB491 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122086)
+2. **HB491 Act 164** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143697)
+3. **HB491 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127741)
+4. **HB491 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132192)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1499, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127195)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1570, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127562)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #1875, Schexnayder, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129176)
+8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1192, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128324)
+9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1963, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136132)
+10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2368, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137274)
+11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2770, Allain, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138897)
+12. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2593, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138014)
+13. **HB491 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142228)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#757) — **34–2** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#904) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#196) — **101–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Clay Schexnayder — primary (person)
+- Andy Anders — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Norton — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
+- Frankie Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
+- John E. "Johnny" Guinn — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Stokes — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Walsworth — cosponsor (person)
+- Nancy Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicholas Muscarello — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan Gatti — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Steve Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven E. Pylant — cosponsor (person)
+- Taylor F. Barras — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Walt Leger, III — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-06** Effective date: See Act.
+- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 164. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
+- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2019-06-01** 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. `passage`
+- **2019-05-28** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-27** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-22** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
+- **2019-05-22** Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
+- **2019-05-21** Reported with amendments.
+- **2019-05-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-07** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/19.
+- **2019-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-04-25** Reported with amendments (15-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/444ff036-a685-40f5-936d-2778c1418496`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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