---
type: "Bill"
title: "AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to the Commission of Weights and Measures"
description: "AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to the Commission of Weights and Measures"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 624"
citation: "Louisiana HB 624 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clay Schexnayder"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-03-02"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16679519-f951-4d58-a8eb-220114787e7a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234102"
source_hash: "a74796f73a3b180fcf6304f412f8f36921a4ca11873acbfd30b3d8b5e907939e"
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 624 (2018) — AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to the Commission of Weights and Measures

## Version chain

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

1. **HB624 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1073035)
2. **HB624 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097984)
3. **HB624 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080740)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1885, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1079981)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1996, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080588)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2659, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1087476)
7. **HB624 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093701)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#329) — **92–0** (pass) · legislature
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#764) — **95–1** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#524) — **34–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Clay Schexnayder — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 172. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-07** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2018-04-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/07/18.
- **2018-04-26** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2018-04-25** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 34 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** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-17** Reported with amendments.
- **2018-04-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-09** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/18.
- **2018-04-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-29** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16679519-f951-4d58-a8eb-220114787e7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).