---
type: "Bill"
title: "GOVERNMENTAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the regulation of battery-charged fences by parishes and municipalities. (8/1/20)"
description: "GOVERNMENTAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the regulation of battery-charged fences by parishes and municipalities. (8/1/20)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 344"
citation: "Louisiana SB 344 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ronnie Johns"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30936a96-6c3e-430f-8183-53b485e15421"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238324"
source_hash: "0e102b42145ab15510f81a42c2563be37360ca721234a3766abbc1ace7ba0abd"
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 344 (2020) — GOVERNMENTAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the regulation of battery-charged fences by parishes and municipalities. (8/1/20)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB344 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163704)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #2759, Farnum, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177184)
3. **SB344 Act 349** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182607)
4. **SB344 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173479)
5. **SB344 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174688)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1602, Johns, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173609)
7. **SB344 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178512)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#578) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#265) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#639) — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ronnie Johns — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date 8/1/2020.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 349. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-31** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/20.
- **2020-05-28** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-28** Rules suspended.
- **2020-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-21** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-19** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-18** Reported favorably.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30936a96-6c3e-430f-8183-53b485e15421`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).