---
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: "2025"
identifier: "HB 392"
citation: "Louisiana HB 392 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vincent J. St. Blanc , III"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13b91591-4e07-451c-bce9-3139bba1542b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248386"
source_hash: "41daa8397d30f7111990b5c9374c6afb9996205583af25986cce4ae2289efd33"
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 392 (2025) — 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. **HB392 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403137)
2. **HB392 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425119)
3. **HB392 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414273)
4. **HB392 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416145)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2679, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413651)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2723, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414034)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2727, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414035)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2755, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414252)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #3025, St. Blanc, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415516)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #3109, Deshotel, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415851)
11. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1710, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414585)
12. **HB392 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420797)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#447) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#595) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — primary (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. 192. `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 38 yeas and 0 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`
- **2025-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-19** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025.
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-13** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/13b91591-4e07-451c-bce9-3139bba1542b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).