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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "WEIGHTS/MEASURES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
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description: "WEIGHTS/MEASURES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2024"
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identifier: "HB 240"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 240 (2024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Troy D. Romero"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 19
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2024-02-27"
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last_action: "2024-05-23"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2dfbfe4-355f-4bb3-8908-173fbed60ee3"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245853"
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source_hash: "9a51cd7dfff2b5e2230739eb9b35298b91c2cea88c0485fc91d67020104e7c28"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# Louisiana HB 240 (2024) — WEIGHTS/MEASURES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB240 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347774)
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2. **HB240 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379528)
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3. **HB240 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364769)
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4. **HB240 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366819)
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5. **House Floor Amendment, #3043, Romero, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365569)
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6. **HB240 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376032)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#641) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#567) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Troy D. Romero — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
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- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 210. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
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- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
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- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
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- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
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- **2024-05-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
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- **2024-04-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2024.
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- **2024-04-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2024-04-11** Reported favorably (11-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2dfbfe4-355f-4bb3-8908-173fbed60ee3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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