---
type: "Bill"
title: "AGRICULTURE/FOREST DEPT: Creates the Agricultural Meteorology Program."
description: "AGRICULTURE/FOREST DEPT: Creates the Agricultural Meteorology Program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 117"
citation: "Louisiana SB 117 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Katrina Jackson-Andrews"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db11c583-0e5d-4dd6-a71a-85d8f966e9d0"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246008"
source_hash: "565a697885cb796aea2bb71e0bb08e49a02f0a121c2cb49f352749f254d83445"
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 SB 117 (2024) — AGRICULTURE/FOREST DEPT: Creates the Agricultural Meteorology Program.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB117 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349432)
2. **SB117 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374255)
3. **SB117 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355784)
4. **SB117 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372012)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#883) — **90–8** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#117) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-13** Effective date 5/13/2024.
- **2024-05-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 34. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-06** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 8. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-01** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2024.
- **2024-04-23** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-18** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-03-25** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-03-20** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-19** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db11c583-0e5d-4dd6-a71a-85d8f966e9d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).