---
type: "Bill"
title: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for an exemption to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law. (8/1/19)"
description: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for an exemption to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law. (8/1/19)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 55"
citation: "Louisiana SB 55 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-26"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63f7ab32-149d-4a71-acb4-85a608a037d2"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235841"
source_hash: "a37e205baa460d696dce3097ee491062ad3a3e85260cee840e248e6368df2761"
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 55 (2019) — AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for an exemption to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law. (8/1/19)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB55 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118343)
2. **SB55 Act 337** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144297)
3. **SB55 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129001)
4. **SB55 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130283)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1180, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128948)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1451, Riser, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130219)
7. **SB55 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139278)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#229) — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#671) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Neil Riser — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 337. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-04** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-30** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-29** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/19.
- **2019-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-16** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-07** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-01** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-30** 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`
- **2019-03-26** 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/63f7ab32-149d-4a71-acb4-85a608a037d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).