republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/hb-239.md

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Bill	FORESTRY: Provides relative to the harvesting of cypress trees on state property	FORESTRY: Provides relative to the harvesting of cypress trees on state property	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2021	HB 239	Louisiana HB 239 (2021)	bill		enacted	Neil Riser	8	22	3	2021-03-26	2021-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/f6782537-b792-4b05-834f-059a5efbe4ad	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240084	35f8a7f13c1a12831d5f72d7f1bb7a6b823e8e783cccee13e80a237baa7a85c6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 239 (2021) — FORESTRY: Provides relative to the harvesting of cypress trees on state property

Version chain

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

1. HB239 Original (filed) — source
2. HB239 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB239 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1233, AGRI, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1844, AGRI, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1925, AGRI, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Floor Amendment, #2804, Ward, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. HB239 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#930) — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#308) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#600) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Neil Riser — primary (person)
• Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
• Buddy Mincey — cosponsor (person)
• C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
• Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
• Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
• Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
• Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
• William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-11 Effective date: 06/11/2021.
• 2021-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 190. executive-signature
• 2021-06-03 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2021-06-03 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2021-06-03 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2021-06-02 Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2021-06-01 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2021.
• 2021-05-27 Received from the Senate with amendments.
• 2021-05-27 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2021-05-20 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2021-05-19 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2021-05-18 Reported favorably.
• 2021-05-11 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. referral-committee
• 2021-05-10 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2021-05-10 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2021-05-06 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2021.
• 2021-05-03 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2021-04-29 Reported with amendments (13-0).
• 2021-04-12 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. referral-committee
• 2021-03-26 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
• 2021-03-26 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. referral-committee
• 2021-03-26 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f6782537-b792-4b05-834f-059a5efbe4ad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).