---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENERGY DEVELOPMENT: Provides for renewable energy leases. (gov sig)"
description: "ENERGY DEVELOPMENT: Provides for renewable energy leases. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 154"
citation: "Louisiana SB 154 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. L. Bret Allain, II"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6f8e502-d860-405b-b3fe-e84aa3fba872"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244488"
source_hash: "001556c5f37b19a9c1258585840e29de8a1a61a2b9c521a7a460b39a25cfffab"
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 154 (2023) — ENERGY DEVELOPMENT: Provides for renewable energy leases. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB154 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309528)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3632, Coussan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326462)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #3804, Orgeron, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327732)
4. **SB154 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333321)
5. **SB154 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316807)
6. **SB154 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323467)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1042, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316788)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #987, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316563)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1595, Allain, R. L. Bret, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320998)
10. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1243, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318389)
11. **SB154 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330976)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#956) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#906) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#346) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- R. L. Bret Allain, II — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-28** Effective date 6/28/2023.
- **2023-06-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 455. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-24** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-17** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Called from the Calendar.
- **2023-05-09** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2023-05-02** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-05-01** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6f8e502-d860-405b-b3fe-e84aa3fba872`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).