---
type: "Bill"
title: "UTILITIES: Authorizes political subdivisions to create stormwater utility systems"
description: "UTILITIES: Authorizes political subdivisions to create stormwater utility systems"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 713"
citation: "Louisiana HB 713 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-04"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6e15f5b-e0bb-417e-a9a5-e7a779e1146c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242536"
source_hash: "8797a4cac698662b4f9ecde5744c4115cc646821a8b3d5e25b50625cf0db4ea5"
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 713 (2022) — UTILITIES: Authorizes political subdivisions to create stormwater utility systems

## Version chain

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

1. **HB713 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1257665)
2. **HB713 Act 228** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286801)
3. **HB713 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1271485)
4. **HB713 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1282390)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#567) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#776) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date: 05/31/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 228. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-12** Reported favorably.
- **2022-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-05-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/2022.
- **2022-04-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-20** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `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 Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `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/a6e15f5b-e0bb-417e-a9a5-e7a779e1146c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).