---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law. (8/1/21)"
description: "PUBLIC UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law. (8/1/21)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 169"
citation: "Louisiana SB 169 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. L. Bret Allain, II"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aec54dc1-250e-490a-a17a-4313e6b51b4f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240375"
source_hash: "2963657fea70a5183c327aa38c34300c5821c2161e9e013a9901303432cf1738"
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 169 (2021) — PUBLIC UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law. (8/1/21)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB169 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211114)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2570, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222605)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2664, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223218)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #2878, McFarland, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224163)
5. **SB169 Act 46** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230694)
6. **SB169 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215511)
7. **SB169 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218629)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #654, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214654)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #753, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215317)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1172, Allain, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217961)
11. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #822, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215747)
12. **SB169 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227710)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#563) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#451) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#148) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- R. L. Bret Allain, II — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date 8/1/2021.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 46. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-27** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-25** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-24** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2021-05-20** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2021-05-19** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2021.
- **2021-05-13** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-12** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-11** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-28** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-21** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-20** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aec54dc1-250e-490a-a17a-4313e6b51b4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).