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+type: "Bill"
+title: "WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Creates the \"Louisiana Agricultural Workforce Development Program\" (Item #67)"
+description: "WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Creates the \"Louisiana Agricultural Workforce Development Program\" (Item #67)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020s2"
+identifier: "HB 69"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 69 (2020s2)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-09-30"
+last_action: "2020-10-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/415c2451-f19a-4b17-b87c-6f98c472d978"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239560"
+source_hash: "fe06b21a05355d09afa6eda20c65540f703df291a553ce374e074f2c304913bd"
+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 69 (2020s2) — WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Creates the "Louisiana Agricultural Workforce Development Program" (Item #67)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB69 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190027)
+2. **HB69 Act 23** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1194939)
+3. **HB69 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191827)
+4. **HB69 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1192591)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #315, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190947)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #449, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191796)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #504, McFarland, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1192224)
+8. **HB69 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1194202)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#198) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#123) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jack McFarland — primary (person)
+- Buddy Mincey — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
+- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-10-28** Effective date: 10/28/2020.
+- **2020-10-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 23. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-10-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-10-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-10-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-10-22** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2020-10-22** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-10-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-10-21** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-10-14** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-10-14** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-10-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/14/20.
+- **2020-10-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-10-12** Reported with amendments (12-0).
+- **2020-09-30** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/415c2451-f19a-4b17-b87c-6f98c472d978`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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