---
type: "Bill"
title: "BUDGETARY CONTROLS: Requires the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a voluntary environmental self-audit program"
description: "BUDGETARY CONTROLS: Requires the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a voluntary environmental self-audit program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 72"
citation: "Louisiana HB 72 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean-Paul Coussan"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 32
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-08"
last_action: "2021-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16693981-f295-4a7f-9e22-71e3b85527f5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239867"
source_hash: "09ba039aaf26cec5ebf3cc02e7be332fd68e71726d5fed2c508ff84b7d579c6b"
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 72 (2021) — BUDGETARY CONTROLS: Requires the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a voluntary environmental self-audit program

## Version chain

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

1. **HB72 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1202699)
2. **HB72 Act 481** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236583)
3. **HB72 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216789)
4. **HB72 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224810)
5. **HB72 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220523)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1563, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216484)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2062, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219776)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2183, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220322)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #2202, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220459)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #2909, Coussan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224439)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2494, ENVQ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227369)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2584, ENVQ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227886)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2606, ENVQ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228080)
14. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2740, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228785)
15. **HB72 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233326)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#845) — **33–4** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1088) — **88–4** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#458) — **87–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jean-Paul Coussan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-29** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-29** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 481. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 88, nays 4. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 4 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-27** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-26** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-25** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 8. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2021.
- **2021-05-12** Notice given.
- **2021-05-12** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-05-12** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-12** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2021-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2021.
- **2021-05-11** Notice given.
- **2021-05-11** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-04** Reported with amendments (8-6).
- **2021-04-27** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2021-04-26** Reported with amendments (12-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/12/2021.
- **2021-03-09** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16693981-f295-4a7f-9e22-71e3b85527f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).