--- type: "Bill" title: "FARMING/EQUIPMENT: Provides relative to the regulation of fuel used in agricultural machinery and fishery equipment" description: "FARMING/EQUIPMENT: Provides relative to the regulation of fuel used in agricultural machinery and fishery equipment" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2024" identifier: "HB 134" citation: "Louisiana HB 134 (2024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Troy D. Romero"] version_count: 7 action_count: 22 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2024-02-23" last_action: "2024-05-23" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e454a82e-7399-4334-a804-6bf0e376170f" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245698" source_hash: "7b98fb0f8a759b91c8fc08aad00bdb008431c23803c5652f385ceb8c462f57d5" 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 134 (2024) — FARMING/EQUIPMENT: Provides relative to the regulation of fuel used in agricultural machinery and fishery equipment ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB134 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345588) 2. **HB134 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379501) 3. **HB134 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364768) 4. **HB134 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366915) 5. **House Floor Amendment, #2979, Romero, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365341) 6. **House Floor Amendment, #3246, Romero, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366616) 7. **HB134 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374159) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#598) — **100–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#637) — **38–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Troy D. Romero — primary (person) - Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person) - Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person) - Chance Henry — cosponsor (person) - Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person) - Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person) - Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person) - John Wyble — cosponsor (person) - Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person) - Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person) - Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024. - **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 195. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2024-05-17** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt` - **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2024-05-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2024-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2024-04-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2024-04-17** Called from the calendar. - **2024-04-17** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar. - **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2024. - **2024-04-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2024-04-11** Reported favorably (11-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee` - **2024-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2024. - **2024-02-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee` - **2024-02-23** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e454a82e-7399-4334-a804-6bf0e376170f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).