RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 80 (HB 392) 2020 Regular Session McFarland
Prior law required the office of forestry to perform functions relating to the practice of
forestry including the administration and supervision of programs for the protection,
management, and preservation of forests, which included the production of seedlings and
other propagation stock.
New law removes the specific function of producing forest seedlings and propagation stock,
but otherwise retains prior law.
Prior law authorized the La. Forestry Commission to fix prices for the sale of forest tree
seedlings, grown by La. Dept. of Agriculture and Forestry nurseries, to landowners involved
in forestry activities and required all receipts from such sale be retained and expended on
department nurseries for purposes of scientific forestry research and experimentation, land
acquisition, and general operations.
New law repeals prior law.
Effective Aug. 1, 2020.
(Amends R.S. 36:628(F); Repeals R.S. 3:4303)