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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ENERGY: Establishes public safety and accountability procedures for carbon dioxide sequestration (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)"
+description: "ENERGY: Establishes public safety and accountability procedures for carbon dioxide sequestration (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 691"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 691 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["R. Dewith Carrier"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-05-15"
+last_action: "2025-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1de25bbe-55df-4cb3-be7d-f07cb4f26426"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=249204"
+source_hash: "3c09ee5fc7cc15cf63140593679d2d972c78faab7a268743ee4d4fd987d578e0"
+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 691 (2025) — ENERGY: Establishes public safety and accountability procedures for carbon dioxide sequestration (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB691 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415224)
+2. **HB691 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426026)
+3. **HB691 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415329)
+4. **HB691 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416809)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #3060, Carrier, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415667)
+6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3072, Lambert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422603)
+7. **HB691 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424434)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#742) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#509) — **89–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1154) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- R. Dewith Carrier — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 06/20/2025.
+- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 397. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 91, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
+- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
+- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
+- **2025-05-19** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-15** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 568 reported by the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment (10-0).
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1de25bbe-55df-4cb3-be7d-f07cb4f26426`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+