AGRICULTURE: Provides relative to the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2023
Committee Review
May 2023
House Passage
Apr 2023
Senate Passage
May 2023
Signed into Law
Jun 2023
Introduced Mar 31, 2023
Signed Jun 6, 2023
Floor votes · Senate May 24, 2023 · House Apr 26, 2023
How they voted
36–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 38
May 24, 2023
D
Democratic12
83% Yea
R
Republican26
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 24, 2023
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 16, 2023
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 15, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 26, 2023
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 20, 2023
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (9-0).
lower
Apr 10, 2023
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
Mar 31, 2023
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Clay Schexnayder
RRepublican
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