---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX/SALES-USE-EXEMPT: Creates a state and local sales tax exemption for purchases of agricultural fencing materials by commercial farmers (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)"
description: "TAX/SALES-USE-EXEMPT: Creates a state and local sales tax exemption for purchases of agricultural fencing materials by commercial farmers (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 330"
citation: "Louisiana HB 330 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Johnson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/605dd68c-2825-42a4-ad38-6d9bbb2fbc6a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244227"
source_hash: "0b41169ec6d241cea1c40b29509ada04b757150a1a0441c2599ba6a43a13d930"
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 330 (2023) — TAX/SALES-USE-EXEMPT: Creates a state and local sales tax exemption for purchases of agricultural fencing materials by commercial farmers (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB330 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307655)
2. **HB330 Act 425** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333201)
3. **HB330 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323088)
4. **HB330 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325232)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2631, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320526)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3093, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323020)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3166, Orgeron, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323511)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2394, Luneau, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326797)
9. **HB330 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330823)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1073) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#794) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#603) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Johnson — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-27** Effective date: See Act.
- **2023-06-27** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 425. `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`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-30** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2023.
- **2023-05-18** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/605dd68c-2825-42a4-ad38-6d9bbb2fbc6a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).