---
type: "Bill"
title: "AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to the repurchase of certain mechanical equipment by a wholesaler"
description: "AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to the repurchase of certain mechanical equipment by a wholesaler"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 649"
citation: "Louisiana HB 649 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b730ba1-1871-4879-bff0-59daff80d2da"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240644"
source_hash: "c71ceb5f09192999c227d8a81ccf3de9b56595e330701439c4dab2312e07bbf4"
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 649 (2021) — AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to the repurchase of certain mechanical equipment by a wholesaler

## Version chain

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

1. **HB649 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212355)
2. **HB649 Act 359** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235687)
3. **HB649 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219052)
4. **HB649 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222892)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1369, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219321)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2094, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224900)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2209, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225712)
8. **HB649 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231731)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#328) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#508) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#921) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 359. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, 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. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-19** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-18** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, 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 (15-0).
- **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.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b730ba1-1871-4879-bff0-59daff80d2da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).