---
type: "Bill"
title: "DAIRY INDUSTRY: Establishes a permit fee for milk, dairy farms, and milk processing plants (EN +$55,740 SG RV See Note)"
description: "DAIRY INDUSTRY: Establishes a permit fee for milk, dairy farms, and milk processing plants (EN +$55,740 SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 325"
citation: "Louisiana HB 325 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerry \"Truck\" Gisclair"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5081ae3-c48a-4945-a2e1-028f1441e3f7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233716"
source_hash: "cc17f14ecb522bba065f291ec934ed81f38ca829d399904a2b4c15754d779d17"
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 325 (2018) — DAIRY INDUSTRY: Establishes a permit fee for milk, dairy farms, and milk processing plants (EN +$55,740 SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB325 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1071063)
2. **HB325 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1092510)
3. **HB325 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077394)
4. **HB325 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1089278)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#482) — **32–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#173) — **75–19** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-01** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 9. `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-25** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-04-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-04-23** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-04-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-18** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-17** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 75, nays 19. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/28/18.
- **2018-03-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-21** Reported favorably (6-3).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e5081ae3-c48a-4945-a2e1-028f1441e3f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).