---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENERGY/OIL & GAS: Authorizes the commissioner of conservation to certify to the U.S. Department of Transportation his regulatory authority over underground natural gas storage facilities"
description: "ENERGY/OIL & GAS: Authorizes the commissioner of conservation to certify to the U.S. Department of Transportation his regulatory authority over underground natural gas storage facilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 120"
citation: "Louisiana HB 120 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stuart J. Bishop"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-23"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f1ddc6f-b600-4619-b95d-2c1badeb2e19"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233312"
source_hash: "6b402d77afa8e47c73b73cbee93eef88e46a66d46b3f674e00c0b41911ce58e2"
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 120 (2018) — ENERGY/OIL & GAS: Authorizes the commissioner of conservation to certify to the U.S. Department of Transportation his regulatory authority over underground natural gas storage facilities

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB120 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1066508)
2. **HB120 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096929)
3. **HB120 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077458)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1333, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075918)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1522, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077334)
6. **HB120 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1090708)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#163) — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#573) — **29–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Stuart J. Bishop — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 60. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-04-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-04-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-04-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-23** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/28/18.
- **2018-03-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-21** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2018.
- **2018-02-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f1ddc6f-b600-4619-b95d-2c1badeb2e19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).