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+type: "Bill"
+title: "COASTAL RES/WETLANDS: Authorizes coastal restoration and protection projects as compensatory wetlands mitigation"
+description: "COASTAL RES/WETLANDS: Authorizes coastal restoration and protection projects as compensatory wetlands mitigation"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 49"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 49 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jerry \"Truck\" Gisclair"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-02"
+last_action: "2018-05-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73c8b8a1-6556-444e-b9a4-af89cdbc8114"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233123"
+source_hash: "07b6c5ce4e4c898fb115faf3b7e3b586339b8b3297c27876603337c08c671b32"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 49 (2018) — COASTAL RES/WETLANDS: Authorizes coastal restoration and protection projects as compensatory wetlands mitigation
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB49 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1062503)
+2. **HB49 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096845)
+3. **HB49 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1083516)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2353, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1083398)
+5. **HB49 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1090656)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#376) — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#563) — **27–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
+- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 47. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-04-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-04-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-04-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2018-04-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-04-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-04-23** Reported favorably.
+- **2018-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-04-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-04-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/11/18.
+- **2018-04-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-04-05** Reported with amendments (15-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/2/2018.
+- **2018-02-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-02** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73c8b8a1-6556-444e-b9a4-af89cdbc8114`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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