---
type: "Bill"
title: "AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to lifetime livestock brand recordation and fees"
description: "AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to lifetime livestock brand recordation and fees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 404"
citation: "Louisiana HB 404 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Francis C. Thompson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6df250b3-3c55-476f-b845-d5afd917cec0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240316"
source_hash: "ef8ed6feefa113f32c5297784248f0ce6a2e4dcbc8e1a5edd2f7cf1d12bb0b4a"
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 404 (2021) — AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to lifetime livestock brand recordation and fees

## Version chain

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

1. **HB404 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210713)
2. **HB404 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235315)
3. **HB404 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219050)
4. **HB404 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231313)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#708) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#316) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Francis C. Thompson — primary (person)
- Buddy Mincey — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 234. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/3/2021.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-25** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-10** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2021.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-29** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6df250b3-3c55-476f-b845-d5afd917cec0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).