---
type: "Bill"
title: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law. (8/1/19)"
description: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law. (8/1/19)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 82"
citation: "Louisiana SB 82 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eddie Lambert"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-26"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1743cf5b-8563-4d6a-b22a-7c6d5b79c00b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235932"
source_hash: "ccaaeb5c89ebd651e486b1402453b723a9a21b8fe5496a9fb410da45db18e884"
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 82 (2019) — UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law. (8/1/19)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB82 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118921)
2. **SB82 Act 344** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144285)
3. **SB82 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127535)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1024, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127511)
5. **SB82 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139942)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#206) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#709) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eddie Lambert — primary (person)
- Stuart J. Bishop — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 344. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-04** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-05-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/19.
- **2019-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-20** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-01** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-30** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-29** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** 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/1743cf5b-8563-4d6a-b22a-7c6d5b79c00b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).