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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TAX/SEVERANCE TAX: Provides relative to rates, computation, and administration of severance tax on oil, gas, and other natural resources (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)"
+description: "TAX/SEVERANCE TAX: Provides relative to rates, computation, and administration of severance tax on oil, gas, and other natural resources (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 518"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 518 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brett Geymann"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-04-04"
+last_action: "2025-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0916df56-3c7b-47d9-84ba-d2cef15534e3"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248550"
+source_hash: "ab151a9701a01ffdc046e22bf4ba1bb11c4a77a011a7f915614b72cecf8773e3"
+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 518 (2025) — TAX/SEVERANCE TAX: Provides relative to rates, computation, and administration of severance tax on oil, gas, and other natural resources (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB518 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404109)
+2. **Conference Committee Report, #4406, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424805)
+3. **HB518 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425993)
+4. **HB518 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411013)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2173, R&F, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417708)
+6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2833, Bass, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421550)
+7. **HB518 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425311)
+
+## Votes
+
+- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1133) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#743) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#308) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- ADOPT (#988) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1259) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brett Geymann — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
+- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 373. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-12** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
+- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2025-06-12** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
+- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
+- **2025-06-12** Rules suspended.
+- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
+- **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
+- **2025-06-11** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
+- **2025-06-11** Senate conference committee members appointed: Bass, Foil, and Reese.
+- **2025-06-11** House conferees appointed: Geymann, Emerson, and Carlson.
+- **2025-06-10** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
+- **2025-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
+- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
+- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
+- **2025-06-04** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2025-06-04** Rules suspended.
+- **2025-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-03** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2025-06-02** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-08** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-08** Called from the calendar.
+- **2025-05-08** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2025-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2025.
+- **2025-05-06** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-05** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0916df56-3c7b-47d9-84ba-d2cef15534e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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