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+type: "Bill"
+title: "MINERALS: Provides for the disposal of produced waters"
+description: "MINERALS: Provides for the disposal of produced waters"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 545"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 545 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jim Morris"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-29"
+last_action: "2019-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/beb07430-1fe0-4b7f-8d91-a3a1445bc9bc"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236395"
+source_hash: "07b41ee2abc6f6043dc3acbce173a149e131aa0ed9fe6d02fbe5a86569a88a11"
+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 545 (2019) — MINERALS: Provides for the disposal of produced waters
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB545 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122236)
+2. **HB545 Act 242** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144106)
+3. **HB545 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127010)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1489, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126954)
+5. **HB545 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139129)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#535) — **36–1** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#132) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jim Morris — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
+- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 242. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2019-05-28** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-21** Reported favorably.
+- **2019-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-01** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
+- **2019-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/19.
+- **2019-04-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-04-24** Reported with amendments (17-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/beb07430-1fe0-4b7f-8d91-a3a1445bc9bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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