33 bills pending
Members
π₯ Brett Geymann (R)
π₯ Joseph Orgeron (R)
Pending Bills
HB4: Authorizes a parish governing authority to determine whether Class VI carbon dioxide injection wells may be permitted within its parish
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: Charles Owen (R)
Co-sponsors: Beryl Amedee (R) Dodie Horton (R) Rodney Schamerhorn (R)
HB75: Provides relative to compensation for pore space owners (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: π€ Danny McCormick (R)
Requires that an owner in interest be paid the maximum compensation paid per acre to any other owner in interest in the unitization. Permits the court to request information necessary to
determine compensation for an owner in interest.
HB154: Authorizes the transfer of certain state property in the parishes of Webster and Bienville
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: Wayne McMahen (R)
Authorizes the commissioner of administration to transfer certain state property in Webster and Bienville Parishes to individuals that hold record title to the property.
Authorizes the commissioner of administration to transfer certain state property in Webster Parish to Mark Alan Dean and Amy Redden Dean.
Authorizes the commissioner of administration to transfer certain state property in Webster Parish to Mark Jason Woods and Jennifer Michelle Woods.
Provides for the reservation of mineral rights to the state.
HB172: Extends the period for which the Comite River is exempt from certain provisions of the Louisiana Scenic Rivers Act
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: Kathy Edmonston (R)
EXTENDS existing legislative carve out.
HB173: Provides relative to expanding the jurisdiction of state park wardens to enforce litter laws statewide
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: John Illg (R)
EXPANDS GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY
State Park Warden authority should be limited to their jurisdiction. What will be next? Police? Sheriffs? Tax Collectors?
HB196: Authorizes the lease of certain state property in Jefferson Parish
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: Joseph Stagni (R)
Co-sponsors: Debbie Villio (R)
HB204: Provides relative to the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries' annual duck stamps (OR SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: Chance Henry (R)
HB205: Provides for the operation of saltwater disposal wells in the parishes of Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, DeSoto, Red River, and Webster (OR +$111,002 SG EX See Note)
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: π€ Danny McCormick (R)
HB219: Provides for deer sex identification requirements
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: π€ Dewith Carrier (R)
SLIGHT DEREGULATION
HB380: Removes eminent domain authority for carbon dioxide sequestration
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: Rodney Schamerhorn (R)
HB396: Declares that carbon dioxide sequestration in Louisiana is illegal (OR DECREASE SD RV See Note)
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: π€ Danny McCormick (R)
HB459: Provides for renewable energy regulation and permitting
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: π€ Kimberly Coates (R)
HB522: Places a moratorium on carbon dioxide sequestration (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: π€ Danny McCormick (R)
HB537: Authorizes liens for victims of CO2 pipeline disasters (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: Rodney Schamerhorn (R)
HB548: Provides for the dedication of revenue from carbon dioxide sequestration on state lands and water bottoms
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: π€ Jeremy LaCombe (R)
HB553: Prohibits the exercise of eminent domain or unitization for a pipeline that carries carbon dioxide
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: Rodney Schamerhorn (R)
HB564: Establishes the Conservation Incentive Program
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: π€ Jacob Landry (R)
ANOTHER GUBM'NT PROGRAM
HB581: Prohibits releasing inflated balloons outdoors (OR INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: John Illg (R)
Co-sponsors: π€ Dewith Carrier (R)
HB585: Requires advance notice to surface and mineral owners prior to permitting or performing carbon dioxide sequestration activities
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: π€ Danny McCormick (R)
HB604: Establishes a red drum tag program (OR INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: π₯ Joseph Orgeron (R)
HB634: To provide relative to remediation of oilfield sites (OR SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: π€ Jacob Landry (R)
HB637: Establishes habitat conversion fees for large-scale solar development
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-22
Author: π€ Kimberly Coates (R)
HB638: Establishes agricultural conversion fees for large-scale solar development
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-04-22
Author: π€ Kimberly Coates (R)
HR126: Urges and requests the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission and the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to consider changing the daily limit and size restrictions on crappie fish in Saline-Larto Complex
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-05-08
Author: π‘οΈ Mike Johnson (R)
HCR40: Creates the Louisiana Grid Efficiency Task Force
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-05-08
Author: π€ Jerome Zeringue (R)
HR152: Urges and requests the secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services to study the negative health impacts of imported shrimp
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-05-13
Author: π€ Timothy Kerner (R)
HCR61: Creates a special task force to study the interagency consultation process for data centers to ensure more complete natural resource planning and management
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-05-22
Author: π€ Kimberly Coates (R)
HCR64: Urges and requests the Department of Energy and Natural Resources and the Public Service Commission to research and implement nuclear energy generation within the state
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-05-22
Author: Michael Echols (R)
HR212: Urges and requests the Department of Energy and Natural Resources and the Public Service Commission to research the benefits of using nuclear energy generation within the state
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-05-27
Author: Michael Echols (R)
HCR67: Creates a special task force for the legislature to work with the Department of Energy and Natural Resources, the Department of Environmental Quality, and the Louisiana Board of Regents to assess the capacity of government, industry, and academia to model the behavior of geologically sequestered carbon dioxide and to develop a method, if necessary
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-05-27
Author: Charles Owen (R)
HCR75: Creates the Chronic Wasting Disease Task Force
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-05-28
Author: π€ Neil Riser (R)
HR249: Creates a task force to study and recommend policies to promote Small Nuclear Reactors in Louisiana
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-05-29
Author: Michael Echols (R)
HR274: Urges and requests the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to restore the authority for the general health of Cocodrie Lake to the Cocodrie Lake Game and Fish Commission
Last Action: Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Date: 2025-06-02
Author: Rhonda Butler (R)
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