---
type: "Bill"
title: "AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to agriculture land protection against foreign adversaries (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to agriculture land protection against foreign adversaries (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 238"
citation: "Louisiana HB 238 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-27"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b75f6b2e-d2a3-4593-bfab-5aada4e11ef8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245851"
source_hash: "885a1905bc764baa553e734a4c730912628eec27c187011782b989bd26c87214"
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 238 (2024) — AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to agriculture land protection against foreign adversaries (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB238 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347770)
2. **HB238 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381897)
3. **HB238 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359468)
4. **HB238 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367157)
5. **HB238 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365414)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2885, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365001)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2970, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365361)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3194, Echols, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366437)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1979, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365724)
10. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3140, Cathey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372218)
11. **HB238 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377487)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#606) — **92–4** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1178) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#640) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- MODIFY TIME LIMITS (#605) — **25–67** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael Echols — primary (person)
- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Allain — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 420. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/21/2024.
- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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`
- **2024-04-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2024.
- **2024-04-16** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-15** Reported with amendments (19-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2024-04-02** Reported favorably (15-0), with the recommendation to recommit to the Committee on Appropriations. `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`
- **2024-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b75f6b2e-d2a3-4593-bfab-5aada4e11ef8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).