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+type: "Bill"
+title: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law"
+description: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 581"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 581 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Vincent J. St. Blanc , III"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-03-03"
+last_action: "2022-05-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3da2470-718d-41a9-9299-d56f8f4bf1a8"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242369"
+source_hash: "386d8f641c3840a36e8cf73a485a86028d546b0233b2361c85e8655d3fa756ad"
+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 581 (2022) — UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB581 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1256713)
+2. **HB581 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280962)
+3. **HB581 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259407)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1215, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259104)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1250, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259335)
+6. **HB581 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278538)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#553) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#29) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
+- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 52. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-15** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/12/2022.
+- **2022-05-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2022-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably.
+- **2022-03-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-21** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2022-03-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2022-03-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/21/2022.
+- **2022-03-16** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2022-03-15** Reported with amendments (14-0).
+- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
+- **2022-03-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-03** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3da2470-718d-41a9-9299-d56f8f4bf1a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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