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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "MINERALS: Provides relative to the nature of production payments"
+description: "MINERALS: Provides relative to the nature of production payments"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 227"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 227 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jean-Paul Coussan"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-02-26"
+last_action: "2020-06-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b31c4208-e0de-4711-bc05-10dd003dd9f3"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237779"
+source_hash: "b27a424ba2a0e907fe59cdb7a3ef77b071efbb29c4af09b9fe188e579ba3431e"
+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 227 (2020) — MINERALS: Provides relative to the nature of production payments
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB227 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1159751)
+2. **HB227 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180295)
+3. **HB227 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165258)
+4. **HB227 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176285)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#8) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#336) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jean-Paul Coussan — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-05** Effective date: 08/01/20.
+- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 76. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2020-05-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-05-19** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2020-03-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-03-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/12/20.
+- **2020-03-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-03-11** Rules suspended.
+- **2020-03-11** Reported favorably (13-0).
+- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b31c4208-e0de-4711-bc05-10dd003dd9f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+