---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENERGY: Defines biomass as it relates to the Louisiana Renewable Energy Development Act"
description: "ENERGY: Defines biomass as it relates to the Louisiana Renewable Energy Development Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 708"
citation: "Louisiana HB 708 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-04"
last_action: "2022-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2c23f26-19a1-4dd4-ad82-cb56e12c88fb"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242517"
source_hash: "6a021245f273daea18e2767628eb46abbc06b45b4c95458af6d54615c3102a2d"
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 708 (2022) — ENERGY: Defines biomass as it relates to the Louisiana Renewable Energy Development Act

## Version chain

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

1. **HB708 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1257611)
2. **HB708 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1288542)
3. **HB708 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260886)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1381, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260496)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1396, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260493)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1440, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260777)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2984, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277527)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3048, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277915)
9. **HB708 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281349)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1017) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#74) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#683) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 275. `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 94, 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.
- **2022-05-17** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-12** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-11** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-28** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/24/2022.
- **2022-03-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-21** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f2c23f26-19a1-4dd4-ad82-cb56e12c88fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).