---
type: "Bill"
title: "WEIGHTS/MEASURES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
description: "WEIGHTS/MEASURES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 240"
citation: "Louisiana HB 240 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Troy D. Romero"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-27"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2dfbfe4-355f-4bb3-8908-173fbed60ee3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245853"
source_hash: "9a51cd7dfff2b5e2230739eb9b35298b91c2cea88c0485fc91d67020104e7c28"
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 240 (2024) — WEIGHTS/MEASURES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB240 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347774)
2. **HB240 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379528)
3. **HB240 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364769)
4. **HB240 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366819)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3043, Romero, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365569)
6. **HB240 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376032)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#641) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#567) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Troy D. Romero — primary (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. 210. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** 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 36 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 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **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`
- **2024-02-27** 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/d2dfbfe4-355f-4bb3-8908-173fbed60ee3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).