---
type: "Bill"
title: "WATER/RESOURCES: Extends cooperative endeavor agreements for use of surface waters"
description: "WATER/RESOURCES: Extends cooperative endeavor agreements for use of surface waters"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 181"
citation: "Louisiana HB 181 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-24"
last_action: "2020-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f82a6308-f8ba-4e68-95ac-449bb8035e6f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237687"
source_hash: "d6b2f1255f5541914ace5491bf39115f1618cc727a86b96f4bea8ec2aef9ab14"
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 181 (2020) — WATER/RESOURCES: Extends cooperative endeavor agreements for use of surface waters

## Version chain

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

1. **HB181 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1158664)
2. **HB181 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180274)
3. **HB181 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169880)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1370, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1168718)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1558, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169779)
6. **HB181 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178609)

## Votes

- 2/3 vote (#675) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- PERMISSION TO CONSIDER AFTER 82ND DAY (#687) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#676) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#64) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Neil Riser — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-05** Effective date: 08/01/20.
- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 66. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-06-01** Notice Senate approved consideration after the 82nd calendar day.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-05-31** Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day.
- **2020-05-31** By a vote of 98 yeas, 0 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 82nd calendar day.
- **2020-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-28** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-22** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Natural Resources.
- **2020-05-22** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2020-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
- **2020-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f82a6308-f8ba-4e68-95ac-449bb8035e6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).