---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONTRACTS: Provides for energy efficiency contracts. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
description: "CONTRACTS: Provides for energy efficiency contracts. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 212"
citation: "Louisiana SB 212 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95ea9313-6e6b-48a7-a511-41945599a882"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248733"
source_hash: "0f75a29203649760f2ac4fcd70341c8b25612406c34774ad3b974828f07d3ab9"
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 212 (2025) — CONTRACTS: Provides for energy efficiency contracts. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB212 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404683)
2. **SB212 Act 451** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426059)
3. **SB212 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410456)
4. **SB212 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412597)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1069, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410113)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1117, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410383)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1285, Foil, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411591)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1290, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411567)
9. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1294, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411599)
10. **SB212 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423301)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#184) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#985) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Patrick McMath — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 451. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-10** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, rules suspended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-08** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-07** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-30** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal 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/95ea9313-6e6b-48a7-a511-41945599a882`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).