---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Transfers litter abatement responsibilities and programs from the Department of Education to the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism"
description: "ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Transfers litter abatement responsibilities and programs from the Department of Education to the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 749"
citation: "Louisiana HB 749 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stuart J. Bishop"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-04"
last_action: "2022-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b02419b-4128-406d-a0b0-333fd136401b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242615"
source_hash: "e258066dfa8ec329f4ea797ff801fa1e29f751f2f445930a024758f1f3dd4b2c"
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 749 (2022) — ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Transfers litter abatement responsibilities and programs from the Department of Education to the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism

## Version chain

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

1. **HB749 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1257949)
2. **HB749 Act 16** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280886)
3. **HB749 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267245)
4. **HB749 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1271303)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2128, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266904)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2174, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267145)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2443, Bishop, S., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268867)
8. **HB749 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275863)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#458) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#358) — **94–0** (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. 16. `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.
- **2022-04-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-19** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-19** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-04-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/19/2022.
- **2022-04-13** Notice given.
- **2022-04-13** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2022-04-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/13/2022.
- **2022-04-07** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-06** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **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.
- **2022-03-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `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/9b02419b-4128-406d-a0b0-333fd136401b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).