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2024 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 237
BY SENATOR PRESSLY
AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES. Provides relative to industrial hemp. (8/1/24)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact the introductory paragraph of R.S. 3:1464(9) and 1464(9)(d) and (f),
3 relative to industrial hemp; to provide for the regulation of industrial hemp; to
4 provide for powers and responsibilities of the commission and the commissioner; to
5 provide for licensure; to provide for reports; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. The introductory paragraph of R.S. 3:1464(9) and 1464(9)(d) and (f) are
8 hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
9 ยง1464. Powers and duties of the commissioner
10 The commissioner shall:
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12 (9) On or before January 31, 2020, and annually for four eight years
13 thereafter, submit a status report on the state's industrial hemp program to the House
14 Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development and the
15 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
16 The report shall include the following information:
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1 (d) The number of licenses issued to growers with land under two hundred
2 acres and the total quantity and dollar amount of industrial hemp sold from those
3 growers to processors.
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5 (f) Estimated value of the industrial hemp industry in the state and in each
6 parish.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Dawn Romero Watson.
DIGEST
SB 237 Original 2024 Regular Session Pressly
Present law provides that for the years of 2020 to 2024, the commissioner shall submit an
annual report on the status of the state's industrial hemp program to the House and Senate
committees on agriculture. Provides that, among other items, the report shall include
information on the number of licenses issued to growers with land under 200 acres and the
total amount of industrial hemp sold from those growers to processors as well as the
estimated value of the industrial hemp industry.
Proposed law extends the reporting for four additional years and changes the report to
provide that it shall include the total quantity and dollar amount of industrial hemp sold from
growers with land under 200 acres and requires the estimated value of the industrial hemp
industry be reported by parish as well as statewide.
Effective August 1, 2024.
(Amends R.S. 3:1464(9)(intro para), and 1464(9)(d) and (f))
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