republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-238.md

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Bill	AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to agriculture land protection against foreign adversaries (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to agriculture land protection against foreign adversaries (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 238	Louisiana HB 238 (2024)	bill		enacted	Michael Echols	11	23	4	2024-02-27	2024-06-03	openstates	ocd-bill/b75f6b2e-d2a3-4593-bfab-5aada4e11ef8	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245851	885a1905bc764baa553e734a4c730912628eec27c187011782b989bd26c87214	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 238 (2024) — AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to agriculture land protection against foreign adversaries (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB238 Original (filed) — source
2. HB238 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB238 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB238 Re-Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HB238 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2885, APP, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #2970, APP, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #3194, Echols, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1979, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3140, Cathey, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. HB238 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#606) — 92–4 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1178) — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#640) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• MODIFY TIME LIMITS (#605) — 25–67 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Michael Echols — primary (person)
• Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
• Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
• Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Allain — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
• William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-03 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-06-03 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 420. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-23 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-23 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-22 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-21 Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-05-20 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/21/2024.
• 2024-05-14 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-13 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-06 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-01 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-04-30 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-23 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-22 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-18 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-16 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2024.
• 2024-04-16 Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-15 Reported with amendments (19-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-03 Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2024-04-02 Reported favorably (15-0), with the recommendation to recommit to the Committee on Appropriations. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b75f6b2e-d2a3-4593-bfab-5aada4e11ef8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).