---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/VENUE: Provides relative to venue for claims involving expropriation for carbon capture"
description: "CIVIL/VENUE: Provides relative to venue for claims involving expropriation for carbon capture"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 304"
citation: "Louisiana HB 304 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Carter"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ae3d2f0-2e4b-41a8-98c9-289fe09ea141"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248269"
source_hash: "ea2c3cafd7f008af92ddd36d39591048a643752abcbae2632fec64c73383822a"
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 304 (2025) — CIVIL/VENUE: Provides relative to venue for claims involving expropriation for carbon capture

## Version chain

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

1. **HB304 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402215)
2. **HB304 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425103)
3. **HB304 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412171)
4. **HB304 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420699)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#372) — **55–40** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#588) — **28–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robert Carter — primary (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 179. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-29** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-13** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 55, nays 40. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2025.
- **2025-05-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-07** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ae3d2f0-2e4b-41a8-98c9-289fe09ea141`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).