---
type: "Bill"
title: "AGRICULTURE/RICE: Repeals the sunset on assessments levied by the Louisiana Rice Research Board"
description: "AGRICULTURE/RICE: Repeals the sunset on assessments levied by the Louisiana Rice Research Board"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 691"
citation: "Louisiana HB 691 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["H. Bernard LeBas"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-02"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef558294-fb81-4c33-9230-6f6f138e6eba"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234190"
source_hash: "1e60a7edcc098857f7453b2e2e74bdf8c65beeccf3c67ce1edac86feb650ce7c"
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 691 (2018) — AGRICULTURE/RICE: Repeals the sunset on assessments levied by the Louisiana Rice Research Board

## Version chain

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

1. **HB691 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1073289)
2. **HB691 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097995)
3. **HB691 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080618)
4. **HB691 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094604)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#393) — **84–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#841) — **32–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- H. Bernard LeBas — 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. 176. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-08** 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`
- **2018-05-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-05-02** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-05-01** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 84, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-10** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/11/18.
- **2018-04-10** Notice given.
- **2018-04-09** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2018-04-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/18.
- **2018-04-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-29** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **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/ef558294-fb81-4c33-9230-6f6f138e6eba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).