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+type: "Bill"
+title: "NATURAL RESOURCES DEPT: Provides for the Orphan Well Program. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE FF EX See Note)"
+description: "NATURAL RESOURCES DEPT: Provides for the Orphan Well Program. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE FF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 245"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 245 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["R. L. Bret Allain, II"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-03-03"
+last_action: "2022-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2b182fa-fa6a-4559-a381-3f6ab9cf9ae8"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242221"
+source_hash: "cbe883f8022148d829d99af238864505fab149e2b0cddbac20e5b2d89a49db5e"
+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 SB 245 (2022) — NATURAL RESOURCES DEPT: Provides for the Orphan Well Program. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE FF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB245 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1255800)
+2. **SB245 Act 10** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1279850)
+3. **SB245 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259757)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #651, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259505)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #679, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259741)
+6. **SB245 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277742)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#138) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#740) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- R. L. Bret Allain, II — primary (person)
+- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-13** Effective date 5/13/2022.
+- **2022-05-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 10. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-12** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-11** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2022-05-11** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2022-05-10** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2022-05-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2022-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2022.
+- **2022-04-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2022-04-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2022-04-19** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2022-04-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2022-04-04** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2022-03-29** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2022-03-28** Reported favorably.
+- **2022-03-21** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
+- **2022-03-16** Reported with amendments.
+- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-03** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2b182fa-fa6a-4559-a381-3f6ab9cf9ae8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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