---
type: "Bill"
title: "FIRE PROTECT/FIRE MARSHAL: Provides relative to the discharge or use of Class B fire fighting foam containing fluorinated organic chemicals"
description: "FIRE PROTECT/FIRE MARSHAL: Provides relative to the discharge or use of Class B fire fighting foam containing fluorinated organic chemicals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 389"
citation: "Louisiana HB 389 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodie Horton"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2eaceb0-2e5a-4d50-bd7f-7c24328968b2"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240301"
source_hash: "0fcd56182276388af943818c80cd06691b77415260843128cf49789ee9f9a32b"
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 389 (2021) — FIRE PROTECT/FIRE MARSHAL: Provides relative to the discharge or use of Class B fire fighting foam containing fluorinated organic chemicals

## Version chain

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

1. **HB389 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210607)
2. **HB389 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235313)
3. **HB389 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213842)
4. **HB389 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215634)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1352, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215265)
6. **HB389 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231626)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#732) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#30) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dodie Horton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 232. `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 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-02** Called from the Calendar.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended.
- **2021-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-12** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2021.
- **2021-04-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-14** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2eaceb0-2e5a-4d50-bd7f-7c24328968b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).