---
type: "Bill"
title: "FORESTRY: Provides relative to timber harvesting operations"
description: "FORESTRY: Provides relative to timber harvesting operations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 327"
citation: "Louisiana HB 327 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a57682e-7ee5-455b-b4de-693129f597d9"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245996"
source_hash: "539ac24f906d7674d80577ed3c20e7a54beeb6c321db3cbf6747efece7f6cb34"
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 327 (2024) — FORESTRY: Provides relative to timber harvesting operations

## Version chain

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

1. **HB327 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349391)
2. **HB327 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379534)
3. **HB327 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364715)
4. **HB327 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374332)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#643) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#572) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — 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. 214. `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, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, 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 (9-0-1). `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`
- **2024-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a57682e-7ee5-455b-b4de-693129f597d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).