---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC CONTRACT/BIDS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Municipal Natural Gas Purchasing and Distribution Authority"
description: "PUBLIC CONTRACT/BIDS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Municipal Natural Gas Purchasing and Distribution Authority"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 174"
citation: "Louisiana HB 174 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Huval"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-23"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a59b6907-b1b0-47b2-afa9-542d18fb9c87"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240000"
source_hash: "d1b0c74009a36803f50abc15c9129e1c0d23172e21dab2be286a5739bc14585a"
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 174 (2021) — PUBLIC CONTRACT/BIDS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Municipal Natural Gas Purchasing and Distribution Authority

## Version chain

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

1. **HB174 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1205869)
2. **HB174 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235107)
3. **HB174 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218383)
4. **HB174 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231534)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#209) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#687) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mike Huval — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 176. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-20** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/04/2021.
- **2021-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-28** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a59b6907-b1b0-47b2-afa9-542d18fb9c87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).