republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020/hb-843.md

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Bill	AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: To provide for the regulation of industrial hemp, industrial hemp products, and industrial hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) products (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: To provide for the regulation of industrial hemp, industrial hemp products, and industrial hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) products (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020	HB 843	Louisiana HB 843 (2020)	bill		enacted	Clay Schexnayder	13	31	5	2020-03-31	2020-06-13	openstates	ocd-bill/b5d71444-1689-4ba5-a420-8de5b81e603d	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238845	00338a821f7310259c039c5a0d89cfa5d069bce2c41637eca5aef5cb63264c13	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 843 (2020) — AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: To provide for the regulation of industrial hemp, industrial hemp products, and industrial hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) products (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB843 Original (filed) — source
2. Conference Committee Report, #2871, House Adopted, Senate Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. HB843 Act (committee substitute) — source
4. HB843 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HB843 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1416, AGRI, Proposed (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #1576, AGRI, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. House Committee Amendment, #1596, AGRI, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. House Floor Amendment, #2011, Schexnayder, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1180, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #1971, AGRI, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Floor Amendment, #2283, Cathey, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
13. HB843 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• HB 843 BY MR. SPEAKER (#129) — 90–3 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT (#752) — 31–0 (pass) · upper
• REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#734) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#541) — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• MOTION TO ADOPT (#800) — 100–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Clay Schexnayder — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-13 Effective date: 08/01/2020.
• 2020-06-13 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 344. executive-signature
• 2020-06-03 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2020-06-01 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-06-01 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-06-01 Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
• 2020-06-01 Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
• 2020-06-01 Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
• 2020-06-01 Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2020-06-01 Conference Committee report received.
• 2020-06-01 Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
• 2020-06-01 Senate conference committee members appointed: Cathey, Womack, and Bernard.
• 2020-06-01 Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
• 2020-05-31 Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
• 2020-05-31 House conferees appointed: Schexnayder, McFarland, and Turner.
• 2020-05-31 Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
• 2020-05-29 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
• 2020-05-29 Received from the Senate with amendments.
• 2020-05-29 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-05-28 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-05-28 Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-05-26 Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2020-05-26 Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
• 2020-05-26 Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
• 2020-05-18 Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. referral-committee
• 2020-05-15 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-05-13 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
• 2020-05-13 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-05-07 Reported with amendments (17-0).
• 2020-05-04 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. referral-committee
• 2020-03-31 Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b5d71444-1689-4ba5-a420-8de5b81e603d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).