republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020/hb-426.md

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Bill	AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides relative to seed testing and labeling	AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides relative to seed testing and labeling	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020	HB 426	Louisiana HB 426 (2020)	bill		enacted	Francis C. Thompson	4	20	2	2020-02-27	2020-06-09	openstates	ocd-bill/c771406c-e855-4b4d-9b51-5f01bbe4d173	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238127	3a1f45d241dc3d67dc40a4ca52ea9375bdd579a8e0146af9c6627ae0e4a5e11d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 426 (2020) — AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides relative to seed testing and labeling

Version chain

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

1. HB426 Original (filed) — source
2. HB426 Act 148 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB426 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB426 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#273) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#453) — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Francis C. Thompson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-09 Effective date: 08/01/2020.
• 2020-06-09 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 148. executive-signature
• 2020-06-01 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2020-05-31 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-05-29 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-05-29 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2020-05-28 Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-05-26 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-05-26 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-05-22 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. referral-committee
• 2020-05-21 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2020-05-21 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/20.
• 2020-05-15 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-05-15 Discharged from the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
• 2020-05-13 Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
• 2020-05-07 Reported favorably (16-0. To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
• 2020-03-09 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c771406c-e855-4b4d-9b51-5f01bbe4d173. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).