---
type: "Bill"
title: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Creates the State Land Office Reforestation Fund. (8/1/19) (EN +$60,000 SD RV See Note)"
description: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Creates the State Land Office Reforestation Fund. (8/1/19) (EN +$60,000 SD RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 216"
citation: "Louisiana SB 216 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Norby Chabert"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee642fef-d220-4d8e-a98d-17975cdc8bc5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236439"
source_hash: "a93d8832b522b4c18413d1b4251fa6e91fbf8108438e89ba6359a1a9fb63493f"
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 216 (2019) — FUNDS/FUNDING: Creates the State Land Office Reforestation Fund. (8/1/19) (EN +$60,000 SD RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB216 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122363)
2. **SB216 Act 279** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144040)
3. **SB216 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128608)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1201, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128398)
5. **SB216 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141607)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#822) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#377) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Norby Chabert — primary (person)
- Andy Anders — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dorothy Sue Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
- John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Nicholas Muscarello — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Reid Falconer — cosponsor (person)
- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Walt Leger, III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 279. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/19.
- **2019-05-30** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-28** Reported favorably (17-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-16** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Called from the Calendar.
- **2019-05-01** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2019-04-30** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-29** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Finance. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee642fef-d220-4d8e-a98d-17975cdc8bc5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).