---
type: "Bill"
title: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Electric Utility Energy Transition Securitization Act. (gov sig)"
description: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Electric Utility Energy Transition Securitization Act. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 51"
citation: "Louisiana SB 51 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry Milligan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-24"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4e81c71-0955-4651-b4c8-1f4d7fb47ce3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244071"
source_hash: "e73429c7ca3ab59c956f73059632092c64ed46521dd2515bb92a0c2702b84732"
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 51 (2023) — UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Electric Utility Energy Transition Securitization Act. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB51 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305297)
2. **SB51 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332132)
3. **SB51 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312974)
4. **SB51 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328161)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#91) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#812) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barry Milligan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date 6/7/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 149. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-31** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-31** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-31** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/31/2023.
- **2023-05-25** Notice given.
- **2023-05-25** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2023.
- **2023-05-17** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-15** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-26** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-25** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-18** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** 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`
- **2023-03-24** 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/d4e81c71-0955-4651-b4c8-1f4d7fb47ce3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).