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+type: "Bill"
+title: "FORESTRY: Provides relative to the harvesting of cypress trees on state property"
+description: "FORESTRY: Provides relative to the harvesting of cypress trees on state property"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 239"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 239 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-03-26"
+last_action: "2021-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6782537-b792-4b05-834f-059a5efbe4ad"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240084"
+source_hash: "35f8a7f13c1a12831d5f72d7f1bb7a6b823e8e783cccee13e80a237baa7a85c6"
+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 239 (2021) — FORESTRY: Provides relative to the harvesting of cypress trees on state property
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB239 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1207470)
+2. **HB239 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235201)
+3. **HB239 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219269)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1233, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214361)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1844, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218386)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1925, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218970)
+7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2804, Ward, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229293)
+8. **HB239 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231004)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#930) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#308) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#600) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Neil Riser — primary (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Buddy Mincey — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2021.
+- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 190. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2021.
+- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-18** Reported favorably.
+- **2021-05-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-10** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2021.
+- **2021-05-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-04-29** Reported with amendments (13-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
+- **2021-03-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-26** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6782537-b792-4b05-834f-059a5efbe4ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+