---
type: "Bill"
title: "MINERALS: Provides relative to the nature of production payments"
description: "MINERALS: Provides relative to the nature of production payments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 227"
citation: "Louisiana HB 227 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean-Paul Coussan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-26"
last_action: "2020-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b31c4208-e0de-4711-bc05-10dd003dd9f3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237779"
source_hash: "b27a424ba2a0e907fe59cdb7a3ef77b071efbb29c4af09b9fe188e579ba3431e"
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 227 (2020) — MINERALS: Provides relative to the nature of production payments

## Version chain

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

1. **HB227 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1159751)
2. **HB227 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180295)
3. **HB227 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165258)
4. **HB227 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176285)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#8) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#336) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jean-Paul Coussan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-05** Effective date: 08/01/20.
- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 76. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-19** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-03-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/12/20.
- **2020-03-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-03-11** Rules suspended.
- **2020-03-11** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b31c4208-e0de-4711-bc05-10dd003dd9f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).