---
type: "Bill"
title: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: To provide for the regulation of industrial hemp, industrial hemp products, and industrial hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) products (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: To provide for the regulation of industrial hemp, industrial hemp products, and industrial hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) products (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 843"
citation: "Louisiana HB 843 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clay Schexnayder"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-03-31"
last_action: "2020-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5d71444-1689-4ba5-a420-8de5b81e603d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238845"
source_hash: "00338a821f7310259c039c5a0d89cfa5d069bce2c41637eca5aef5cb63264c13"
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 843 (2020) — AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: To provide for the regulation of industrial hemp, industrial hemp products, and industrial hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) products (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB843 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1168253)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #2871, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178145)
3. **HB843 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182597)
4. **HB843 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170307)
5. **HB843 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173252)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1416, AGRI, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169178)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1576, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169959)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #1596, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170156)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #2011, Schexnayder, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172751)
10. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1180, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170708)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1971, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175914)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2283, Cathey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177519)
13. **HB843 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179192)

## Votes

- HB 843 BY MR. SPEAKER (#129) — **90–3** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#752) — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#734) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#541) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- MOTION TO ADOPT (#800) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clay Schexnayder — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 344. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-06-01** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2020-06-01** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2020-06-01** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2020-06-01** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-06-01** Conference Committee report received.
- **2020-06-01** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2020-06-01** Senate conference committee members appointed: Cathey, Womack, and Bernard.
- **2020-06-01** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2020-05-31** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2020-05-31** House conferees appointed: Schexnayder, McFarland, and Turner.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-28** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-26** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2020-05-26** Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
- **2020-05-26** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments (17-0).
- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-31** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b5d71444-1689-4ba5-a420-8de5b81e603d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).