---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC HEALTH/OFFICE: Provides relative to destruction of imported food which is subject to an import ban"
description: "PUBLIC HEALTH/OFFICE: Provides relative to destruction of imported food which is subject to an import ban"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 269"
citation: "Louisiana HB 269 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Timothy P. Kerner"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d265b44-821a-4637-8a1f-cb645ab5225b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240124"
source_hash: "6ea0c4ba2436a57b0d4193f3615633785002ddf3ff2e7b618bac5f70222cdceb"
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 269 (2021) — PUBLIC HEALTH/OFFICE: Provides relative to destruction of imported food which is subject to an import ban

## Version chain

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

1. **HB269 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208402)
2. **HB269 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235206)
3. **HB269 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220517)
4. **HB269 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223552)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1576, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220839)
6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2575, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227821)
7. **HB269 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230946)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#911) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#370) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#533) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Timothy P. Kerner — primary (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 195. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2021.
- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-20** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-11** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-04** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d265b44-821a-4637-8a1f-cb645ab5225b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).