---
type: "Bill"
title: "AGRICULTURE: Modifies structural pest control provisions related to the registered technician examination and the appointment of research committee members"
description: "AGRICULTURE: Modifies structural pest control provisions related to the registered technician examination and the appointment of research committee members"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 33"
citation: "Louisiana HB 33 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-24"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56c215d2-5b1d-498a-88c2-d22fb8cd3838"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243859"
source_hash: "ba34f61c513185c45dec81940e3883898433a88f20ea34854d56b7b93f8a4687"
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 33 (2023) — AGRICULTURE: Modifies structural pest control provisions related to the registered technician examination and the appointment of research committee members

## Version chain

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

1. **HB33 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1300900)
2. **HB33 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332478)
3. **HB33 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318476)
4. **HB33 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329896)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#371) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#801) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 335. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-31** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2023.
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2023.
- **2023-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56c215d2-5b1d-498a-88c2-d22fb8cd3838`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).