---
type: "Bill"
title: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law"
description: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 292"
citation: "Louisiana HB 292 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vincent J. St. Blanc , III"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-28"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc8f11d2-a84e-4ff1-88be-5e78f466416f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244172"
source_hash: "e693a58024e7d5f19e8cd462055ae0b6061dba1a13b98bb8cdcace657144f464"
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 292 (2023) — UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law

## Version chain

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

1. **HB292 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306925)
2. **HB292 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332500)
3. **HB292 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315267)
4. **HB292 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317005)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1114, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311460)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1573, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314464)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1678, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315213)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1939, St. Blanc, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316642)
9. **HB292 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329480)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#156) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#717) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 344. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-10** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-02** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-01** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-27** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2023.
- **2023-04-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-24** Reported with amendments (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc8f11d2-a84e-4ff1-88be-5e78f466416f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).