---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL: Provides for carbon sequestration. (8/1/20)"
description: "ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL: Provides for carbon sequestration. (8/1/20)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 353"
citation: "Louisiana SB 353 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Hewitt"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/867a1b3a-0aa8-4302-9841-28058181ea69"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238411"
source_hash: "88a06d18937b1d352230ca1c86e44774c1c5151452d4d187aa8620d04bbbdc40"
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 353 (2020) — ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL: Provides for carbon sequestration. (8/1/20)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB353 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1164017)
2. **SB353 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180294)
3. **SB353 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170099)
4. **SB353 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171296)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #832, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1168747)
6. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1209, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170779)
7. **SB353 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177612)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#113) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#568) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-05** Effective date 8/1/2020.
- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 61. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/20.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-27** Rules suspended.
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** 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/867a1b3a-0aa8-4302-9841-28058181ea69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).