---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Separates funding sources for environmental education and litter abatement"
description: "ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Separates funding sources for environmental education and litter abatement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 397"
citation: "Louisiana HB 397 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stuart J. Bishop"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e19cb01-c4a1-487c-b38e-2999bf429eea"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242025"
source_hash: "3d0cb1795f47aa65ade30d9e3a9bd29f7d4adff4696835b5d479cd883c4fb862"
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 397 (2022) — ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Separates funding sources for environmental education and litter abatement

## Version chain

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

1. **HB397 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1254393)
2. **HB397 Act 15** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280885)
3. **HB397 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267294)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2130, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266933)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2165, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267139)
6. **HB397 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275858)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#457) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#269) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stuart J. Bishop — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-13** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 15. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-03** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-26** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-12** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/12/2022.
- **2022-04-07** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-06** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **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.
- **2022-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e19cb01-c4a1-487c-b38e-2999bf429eea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).