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+type: "Bill"
+title: "SUNSET LAW: Recreates Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources. (6/30/24)"
+description: "SUNSET LAW: Recreates Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources. (6/30/24)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 65"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 65 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bob Hensgens"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-27"
+last_action: "2024-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c3d396d-0568-44a4-b6c3-c52c213334d0"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245871"
+source_hash: "7c6e3d3fa36ecb16d504472507e7624a2ea46bfb339595190b06e7e0e6736f99"
+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 65 (2024) — SUNSET LAW: Recreates Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources. (6/30/24)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB65 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347990)
+2. **SB65 Act 50** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375761)
+3. **SB65 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354325)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #654, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353806)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #765, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354287)
+6. **SB65 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371552)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#46) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#845) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bob Hensgens — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-15** Effective date 6/30/2024.
+- **2024-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 50. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2024-05-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-06** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/2024.
+- **2024-04-02** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2024-03-26** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-20** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2024-03-19** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-03-18** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2024-03-13** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-27** 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/6c3d396d-0568-44a4-b6c3-c52c213334d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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