---
type: "Bill"
title: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to broadband"
description: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to broadband"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1080"
citation: "Louisiana HB 1080 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daryl Deshotel"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 45
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-05-10"
last_action: "2022-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/351c366b-b836-468a-a641-3f1e1c97c87c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243471"
source_hash: "d42861579d9f406a68d03f273bed3c0e0e576d6b02783f6cc1d55bcc402103c5"
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 1080 (2022) — UTILITIES: Provides relative to broadband

## Version chain

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

1. **HB1080 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277354)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #5443, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286910)
3. **Conference Committee Report, #5541, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1288360)
4. **HB1080 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1288831)
5. **HB1080 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277426)
6. **HB1080 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280676)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #4682, Deshotel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280329)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3884, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1282999)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3966, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283352)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4345, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1285627)
11. **HB1080 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1288511)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1151) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 1080 BY DESHOTEL (#1471) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1697) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#931) — **95–1** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1580) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1431) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1715) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Daryl Deshotel — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 288. `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/7/2022.
- **2022-06-06** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-06-06** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-06-06** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2022-06-06** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2022-06-06** Rules suspended.
- **2022-06-06** Conference Committee report received(#5541).
- **2022-06-06** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2022-06-06** Notice Senate recommitted the bill to Conference Committee.
- **2022-06-06** Notice the House recommitted the bill to Conference Committee.
- **2022-06-06** Conference Committee Report read; bill was recommited to Conference Committee.hb612
- **2022-06-06** The vote by which the Conference Committee Report was adopted was reconsidered.
- **2022-06-06** Rules suspended.
- **2022-06-06** The House recommitted the bill to Conference Committee.
- **2022-06-06** Reconsidered.
- **2022-06-06** Rules suspended.
- **2022-06-06** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2022-06-06** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-06-06** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2022-06-06** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0. Having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2022-06-06** Rules suspended.
- **2022-06-06** Conference Committee report received.
- **2022-06-06** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2022-06-06** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2022-06-06** Senate conference committee members appointed: Ward, Mizell, and Cathey.
- **2022-06-06** House conferees appointed: Deshotel, Davis, and Selders.
- **2022-06-05** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2022-06-05** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were rejected. Conference committee appointment pending.
- **2022-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/05/2022.
- **2022-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2022-06-01** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-26** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-25** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- **2022-05-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-05-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2022.
- **2022-05-12** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-12** Discharged from the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2022-05-10** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 1038 reported by the Committee on Commerce (10-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/351c366b-b836-468a-a641-3f1e1c97c87c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).