---
type: "Bill"
title: "SEAFOOD: Provides relative to seafood safety. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "SEAFOOD: Provides relative to seafood safety. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 40"
citation: "Louisiana SB 40 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Allain"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/283b27f8-110b-4b53-83e9-f2074700ab41"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245792"
source_hash: "fb9642f84b65d390df4a608b671c416b180bce39a818e75d2a6e4af941a5e5b9"
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 SB 40 (2024) — SEAFOOD: Provides relative to seafood safety. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB40 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346819)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4185, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371708)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4322, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372954)
4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3328, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373128)
5. **SB40 Act 756** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382647)
6. **SB40 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359042)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1103, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357851)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1278, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358654)
9. **SB40 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379077)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#217) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#1185) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1331) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robert Allain — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Braud — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date 6/19/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 756. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-22** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-21** Notice given.
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2024.
- **2024-05-13** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-09** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-08** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-27** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/283b27f8-110b-4b53-83e9-f2074700ab41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).