---
type: "Bill"
title: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for truth in labeling requirements of agricultural products. (10/1/20)"
description: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for truth in labeling requirements of agricultural products. (10/1/20)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 152"
citation: "Louisiana SB 152 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Francis C. Thompson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f90f2950-ce88-457e-ba3a-dbbfb40bb449"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236143"
source_hash: "56bde516537af0310e6d2b0646c37bad81f88f294ed1d15d5d8ff847343db3d0"
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 152 (2019) — AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for truth in labeling requirements of agricultural products. (10/1/20)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB152 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120911)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3158, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136742)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #3517, Stefanski, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140099)
4. **SB152 Act 273** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144034)
5. **SB152 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124870)
6. **SB152 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126088)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #665, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124815)
8. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #704, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125203)
9. **SB152 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142580)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#849) — **62–29** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#90) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#928) — **31–7** (pass) · upper
- REJECT (#927) — **9–29** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Francis C. Thompson — primary (person)
- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date 10/1/2020.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 273. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-05** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 31 yeas and 7 nays.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 62, nays 29. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-30** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-22** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-16** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** 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`
- **2019-03-27** 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/f90f2950-ce88-457e-ba3a-dbbfb40bb449`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).