---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Prohibits the mislabeling of milk products. (8/1/19)"
description: "HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Prohibits the mislabeling of milk products. (8/1/19)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 39"
citation: "Louisiana SB 39 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Francis C. Thompson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-22"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7c6d523-cd9d-4243-97b0-2abc391b3795"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235782"
source_hash: "af68f89b44c219bf5594c269376ae60cc159f34fea58a209e8681d65f0b7e742"
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 39 (2019) — HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Prohibits the mislabeling of milk products. (8/1/19)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB39 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1117086)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3473, Crews, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139718)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #3483, Landry, N., Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139782)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3488, Landry, N., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139811)
5. **SB39 Act 184** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143923)
6. **SB39 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129745)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1298, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129606)
8. **SB39 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140586)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#733) — **70–27** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#667) — **36–2** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#246) — **36–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Francis C. Thompson — primary (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. 184. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-04** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 2 nays.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-05-30** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 70, nays 27. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/19.
- **2019-05-23** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-21** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-07** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 2 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c7c6d523-cd9d-4243-97b0-2abc391b3795`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).