---
type: "Bill"
title: "PROPERTY/EXPROPRIATION: Provides relative to the existing right of a storage facility operator to expropriate property for the purpose of drilling through a storage facility in Caldwell Parish"
description: "PROPERTY/EXPROPRIATION: Provides relative to the existing right of a storage facility operator to expropriate property for the purpose of drilling through a storage facility in Caldwell Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 267"
citation: "Louisiana HB 267 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-28"
last_action: "2022-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9890bd0-ff25-418a-b77c-74d6bc3deac6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241865"
source_hash: "fe86fe45874d72ed9a67fe2184844c833c7d3f50c21b6dbd1519cc37d17fdf0e"
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 267 (2022) — PROPERTY/EXPROPRIATION: Provides relative to the existing right of a storage facility operator to expropriate property for the purpose of drilling through a storage facility in Caldwell Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB267 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1252384)
2. **HB267 Act 163** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286111)
3. **HB267 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261554)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2922, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277093)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2923, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277286)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2965, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277375)
7. **HB267 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281315)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#127) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#632) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1012) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Neil Riser — primary (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-26** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 163. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-23** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-19** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/19/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2022-05-16** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-12** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-11** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-10** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-04-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/29/2022.
- **2022-03-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-23** Reported favorably (14-0-1).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9890bd0-ff25-418a-b77c-74d6bc3deac6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).