---
type: "Bill"
title: "FORESTRY: Provides for the sale of timber by the state land office. (8/1/18)"
description: "FORESTRY: Provides for the sale of timber by the state land office. (8/1/18)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 438"
citation: "Louisiana SB 438 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Norby Chabert"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-02"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73ad1c52-de8a-4381-be88-a21bca7faf67"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234265"
source_hash: "ca945f39bff306f8b63bdb8a0dce17b1ef3513e2a3988d506ec3b851a05f399f"
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 438 (2018) — FORESTRY: Provides for the sale of timber by the state land office. (8/1/18)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB438 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1073458)
2. **SB438 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097976)
3. **SB438 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075400)
4. **SB438 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093781)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#163) — **32–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#739) — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Norby Chabert — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-15** Effective date 8/1/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 156. `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.
- **2018-05-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-05-03** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2018-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/18.
- **2018-04-19** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2018-04-17** Reported favorably (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-03-29** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `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 32 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-03-20** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-03-19** Reported favorably.
- **2018-03-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73ad1c52-de8a-4381-be88-a21bca7faf67`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).