---
type: "Bill"
title: "AGRICULTURE/FOREST DEPT: Provides relative to the membership of the Louisiana Agricultural Chemistry and Seed Commission. (gov sig)"
description: "AGRICULTURE/FOREST DEPT: Provides relative to the membership of the Louisiana Agricultural Chemistry and Seed Commission. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 170"
citation: "Louisiana SB 170 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Francis C. Thompson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-28"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78375d95-992f-45c1-a44d-2c27f3904816"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233515"
source_hash: "299a8915a845e297e0d78c3448cb2e410a2070c5fd723ca72a489ee7157e521f"
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 SB 170 (2018) — AGRICULTURE/FOREST DEPT: Provides relative to the membership of the Louisiana Agricultural Chemistry and Seed Commission. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB170 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1069182)
2. **SB170 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097963)
3. **SB170 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076766)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1073, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075786)
5. **SB170 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093794)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#166) — **31–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#781) — **92–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Francis C. Thompson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-15** Effective date 5/15/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 149. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-09** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-07** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2018-05-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/18.
- **2018-04-23** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2018-04-18** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-03-29** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-28** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2018-03-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-03-21** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-03-20** Reported with amendments.
- **2018-03-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78375d95-992f-45c1-a44d-2c27f3904816`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).