---
type: "Bill"
title: "FORESTRY: Provides relative to the harvest or sale of forest products"
description: "FORESTRY: Provides relative to the harvest or sale of forest products"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 364"
citation: "Louisiana HB 364 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce20d5fc-0c5f-4f05-9d01-d98805d835c9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236180"
source_hash: "76ad8498aa681bedc34ee32712b98631bfd256a71d9c06b7db4b4447b7190b1b"
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 364 (2019) — FORESTRY: Provides relative to the harvest or sale of forest products

## Version chain

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

1. **HB364 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121362)
2. **HB364 Act 218** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144080)
3. **HB364 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130408)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1918, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129610)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2021, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130275)
6. **HB364 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142168)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#876) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#351) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 218. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-28** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/19.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-02** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce20d5fc-0c5f-4f05-9d01-d98805d835c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).