---
type: "Bill"
title: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides relative to seed testing and labeling"
description: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides relative to seed testing and labeling"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 426"
citation: "Louisiana HB 426 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Francis C. Thompson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c771406c-e855-4b4d-9b51-5f01bbe4d173"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238127"
source_hash: "3a1f45d241dc3d67dc40a4ca52ea9375bdd579a8e0146af9c6627ae0e4a5e11d"
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 426 (2020) — AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides relative to seed testing and labeling

## Version chain

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

1. **HB426 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162557)
2. **HB426 Act 148** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181457)
3. **HB426 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170034)
4. **HB426 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177299)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#273) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#453) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Francis C. Thompson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 148. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-26** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/20.
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-15** Discharged from the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (16-0. To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c771406c-e855-4b4d-9b51-5f01bbe4d173`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).