---
type: "Bill"
title: "FORESTRY: Provides for prescribed burning by non-certified prescribed burn managers. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "FORESTRY: Provides for prescribed burning by non-certified prescribed burn managers. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 81"
citation: "Louisiana SB 81 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Allain"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ccbe2af-71e8-4a0d-825c-c7bb1aea4ac9"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245962"
source_hash: "bf9ef054590024eb6be6731f5601dbc74b02cbe252cf372c20d682a0864ae167"
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 81 (2024) — FORESTRY: Provides for prescribed burning by non-certified prescribed burn managers. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB81 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349208)
2. **SB81 Act 288** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380736)
3. **SB81 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365982)
4. **SB81 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367925)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1757, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363599)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2017, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365977)
7. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2252, Allain, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367628)
8. **SB81 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377717)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#343) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1268) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robert Allain — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date 5/28/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 288. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-23** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-14** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-09** Reported favorably (13-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-22** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-17** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-04-16** Reported with amendments. `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/6ccbe2af-71e8-4a0d-825c-c7bb1aea4ac9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).