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type: "Bill"
title: "FORESTRY: Provides relative to the harvesting of cypress trees on state property"
description: "FORESTRY: Provides relative to the harvesting of cypress trees on state property"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 239"
citation: "Louisiana HB 239 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-26"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6782537-b792-4b05-834f-059a5efbe4ad"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240084"
source_hash: "35f8a7f13c1a12831d5f72d7f1bb7a6b823e8e783cccee13e80a237baa7a85c6"
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 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](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1207470)
2. **HB239 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235201)
3. **HB239 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219269)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1233, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214361)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1844, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218386)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1925, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218970)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2804, Ward, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229293)
8. **HB239 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231004)
## Votes
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#930) — **930** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#308) — **970** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#600) — **370** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6782537-b792-4b05-834f-059a5efbe4ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).