---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Prohibits the importation of crude oil and petroleum products from the Russian Federation into Louisiana. (gov sig)"
description: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Prohibits the importation of crude oil and petroleum products from the Russian Federation into Louisiana. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 196"
citation: "Louisiana SB 196 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stewart Cathey , Jr."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56e205ad-e8b3-4ea1-b859-86711072419e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242137"
source_hash: "9bcf5484342f2668d5ca88d00fe2b03d3877f36558a53b2aadc2ea0bcf883e03"
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 196 (2022) — COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Prohibits the importation of crude oil and petroleum products from the Russian Federation into Louisiana. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB196 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1255318)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3980, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1276734)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4045, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1276992)
4. **SB196 Act 236** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286560)
5. **SB196 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1269621)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1806, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1269274)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1865, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1269544)
8. **SB196 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283519)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#848) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1114) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#297) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — primary (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date 5/31/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 236. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/27/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-26** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-05-24** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2022-05-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2022.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-09** Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-20** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-19** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-18** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-14** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-13** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** 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`
- **2022-03-03** 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/56e205ad-e8b3-4ea1-b859-86711072419e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).