---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/SPECIAL: Provides for the Delta Agriculture Research and Sustainability District"
description: "DISTRICTS/SPECIAL: Provides for the Delta Agriculture Research and Sustainability District"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 36"
citation: "Louisiana HB 36 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Travis Johnson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-02-24"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73c0da22-9751-4328-9df8-0c5a9ea97c73"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243862"
source_hash: "96716c0a8445295dcbb6e3ef684c5fe431e265ecf036ca9c7381e05eb4e5f745"
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 36 (2023) — DISTRICTS/SPECIAL: Provides for the Delta Agriculture Research and Sustainability District

## Version chain

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

1. **HB36 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1300901)
2. **HB36 Act 265** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332427)
3. **HB36 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318659)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1115, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311501)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2425, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326976)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2429, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327052)
7. **HB36 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330645)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1021) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#373) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#619) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Travis Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 265. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-31** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-30** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2023.
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** Reported favorably (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2023.
- **2023-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73c0da22-9751-4328-9df8-0c5a9ea97c73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).