---
type: "Bill"
title: "MINERALS: Provides for the disposal of produced waters"
description: "MINERALS: Provides for the disposal of produced waters"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 545"
citation: "Louisiana HB 545 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jim Morris"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/beb07430-1fe0-4b7f-8d91-a3a1445bc9bc"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236395"
source_hash: "07b41ee2abc6f6043dc3acbce173a149e131aa0ed9fe6d02fbe5a86569a88a11"
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 545 (2019) — MINERALS: Provides for the disposal of produced waters

## Version chain

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

1. **HB545 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122236)
2. **HB545 Act 242** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144106)
3. **HB545 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127010)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1489, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126954)
5. **HB545 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139129)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#535) — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#132) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jim Morris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 242. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-28** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-21** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-01** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2019-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/19.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-24** Reported with amendments (17-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/beb07430-1fe0-4b7f-8d91-a3a1445bc9bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).