---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Transfers the Louisiana Environmental Education Commission to the Department of Education"
description: "ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Transfers the Louisiana Environmental Education Commission to the Department of Education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 501"
citation: "Louisiana HB 501 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stuart J. Bishop"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdb65760-5e3c-4584-b83f-6b1bcd245929"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236347"
source_hash: "86bad16a5e88214a16773db9bc88ea1777991f51168e775bc45bb14f96aae6bf"
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 501 (2019) — ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Transfers the Louisiana Environmental Education Commission to the Department of Education

## Version chain

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

1. **HB501 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122088)
2. **HB501 Act 238** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144102)
3. **HB501 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130001)
4. **HB501 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134553)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1068, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124147)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1927, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129673)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1520, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130674)
8. **HB501 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139595)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#578) — **35–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#312) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stuart J. Bishop — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 238. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/19.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bdb65760-5e3c-4584-b83f-6b1bcd245929`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).