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LouisianaHB 3442026 Regular SessionHouse

AGRICULTURE/GRAIN: Provides relative to the Grain and Cotton Indemnity Fund (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsored By: Kimberly Landry Coates (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Grain and cotton fund fee pauses

The law sets new balance thresholds for pausing Grain and Cotton Indemnity Fund assessments. Collection stops July 1 following the fiscal year when the Louisiana Agricultural Finance Authority balance reaches $25 million. After that pause, collection resumes if the balance falls below $22 million. Assessments collected after reaching $25 million but before the pause stay with the Authority.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Kimberly Landry Coates

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 146 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/27/2026

Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

House vote • 4/1/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 3/26/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 13 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 69.

    5/11/2026House

  2. Effective date: 05/11/2026.

    5/11/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/5/2026House

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/4/2026Senate

  5. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    4/29/2026House

  6. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    4/28/2026House

  7. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/27/2026Senate

  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    4/20/2026Senate

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    4/15/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/14/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.

    4/7/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/1/2026House

  13. Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    4/1/2026Senate

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/01/2026.

    3/31/2026House

  15. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    3/30/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (13-0).

    3/26/2026House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.

    3/9/2026House

  18. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

    2/27/2026House

  19. Prefiled.

    2/24/2026House

  20. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.

    2/24/2026House

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