---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENVIRONMENT/QUALITY: Provides relative to small refineries"
description: "ENVIRONMENT/QUALITY: Provides relative to small refineries"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 632"
citation: "Louisiana HB 632 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-04"
last_action: "2022-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/736b495e-25e9-48bc-9d53-e4e7fa898f41"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242440"
source_hash: "694c1370713d67ddcf415b783d28475427feff013f1e539f72d1c8a7eec05e86"
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 632 (2022) — ENVIRONMENT/QUALITY: Provides relative to small refineries

## Version chain

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

1. **HB632 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1257073)
2. **HB632 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283063)
3. **HB632 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267193)
4. **HB632 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278637)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#514) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#285) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 72. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-17** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-16** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-26** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-14** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-13** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-13** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/13/2022.
- **2022-04-07** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-06** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/736b495e-25e9-48bc-9d53-e4e7fa898f41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).