---
type: "Bill"
title: "AGRICULTURE: Provides for the regulation of commercial feed and use of the Feed and Fertilizer Fund"
description: "AGRICULTURE: Provides for the regulation of commercial feed and use of the Feed and Fertilizer Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 618"
citation: "Louisiana HB 618 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Francis C. Thompson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9cc23502-7fef-497a-a0e3-98a80ad08c4f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238362"
source_hash: "9f55459152f6726c0f85db14e37c016c0f1fda999d11ca9cd12a8133e3ac4b0a"
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 618 (2020) — AGRICULTURE: Provides for the regulation of commercial feed and use of the Feed and Fertilizer Fund

## Version chain

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

1. **HB618 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163823)
2. **HB618 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182528)
3. **HB618 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170123)
4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2175, Cathey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176905)
5. **HB618 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178571)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#717) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#458) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#126) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Francis C. Thompson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 333. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (16-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9cc23502-7fef-497a-a0e3-98a80ad08c4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).