---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENVIRONMENT/SOLID WASTE: Provides relative to requirements for permitting a solid waste incineration facility"
description: "ENVIRONMENT/SOLID WASTE: Provides relative to requirements for permitting a solid waste incineration facility"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 869"
citation: "Louisiana HB 869 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Dewith Carrier"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-05-13"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21377f77-31f1-47a1-87d3-89dd20b0428b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238972"
source_hash: "9fe740023b6dd6cddd48c3bf0481335ffb57fbda07c6c5f430a41310dfb113e1"
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 869 (2020) — ENVIRONMENT/SOLID WASTE: Provides relative to requirements for permitting a solid waste incineration facility

## Version chain

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

1. **HB869 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170249)
2. **HB869 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181895)
3. **HB869 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170268)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2171, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176881)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2457, Lambert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178625)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2458, Connick, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178626)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2471, Cloud, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179025)
8. **HB869 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179218)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#744) — **29–6** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#798) — **95–2** (pass) · lower
- PERMISSION TO CONSIDER AFTER 82ND DAY (#689) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#274) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 vote (#726) — **26–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- R. Dewith Carrier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 06/09/2020.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 163. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-06-01** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 2, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-06-01** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-06-01** Notice Senate approved consideration after the 82nd calendar day.
- **2020-06-01** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 6 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-06-01** Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day by a vote of 26 yeas and 8 nays.
- **2020-06-01** Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day.
- **2020-05-31** By a vote of 96 yeas, 0 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 82nd calendar day.
- **2020-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-28** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-22** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Natural Resources.
- **2020-05-22** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2020-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/20.
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 659 reported by the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment (14-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21377f77-31f1-47a1-87d3-89dd20b0428b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).