republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/hb-640.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides relative to industrial hemp (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)"
description: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides relative to industrial hemp (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 640"
citation: "Louisiana HB 640 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clay Schexnayder"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ab185ec-0b0d-496a-af35-c58a40b4dc1f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240635"
source_hash: "28ecfef969c694d217bc28be3be06b2a3420fb776e6eda547ac86c0d9650e1bd"
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 640 (2021) — AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides relative to industrial hemp (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB640 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212344)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3994, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233514)
3. **HB640 Act 336** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235665)
4. **HB640 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219289)
5. **HB640 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222864)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1906, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218833)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1927, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218972)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1983, Schexnayder, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219315)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1408, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219522)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2009, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224100)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2210, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225706)
12. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3263, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231176)
13. **HB640 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234583)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#325) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1106) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1138) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1224) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#831) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Clay Schexnayder — primary (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 336. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/11/2021.
- **2021-06-10** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-10** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2021-06-10** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2021-06-10** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2021-06-10** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 102, nays 0. Having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2021-06-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/10/2021.
- **2021-06-09** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2021-06-09** Senate conference committee members appointed: Cathey, Bernard, and Milligan.
- **2021-06-09** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2021-06-09** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2021-06-08** House conferees appointed: Schexnayder, McFarland, and Travis Johnson.
- **2021-06-08** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, the House refused to concur in the amendments proposed by the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-06** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-03** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-02** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-19** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2021-05-19** Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
- **2021-05-18** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was 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.
- **2021-05-03** Rules suspended.
- **2021-04-29** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ab185ec-0b0d-496a-af35-c58a40b4dc1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).