---
type: "Bill"
title: "EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: Provides relative to the sale, transportation, and acceptance of propane and other fuels during a declared disaster or emergency"
description: "EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: Provides relative to the sale, transportation, and acceptance of propane and other fuels during a declared disaster or emergency"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 740"
citation: "Louisiana HB 740 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buddy Mincey"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-04"
last_action: "2022-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5649669c-5f27-4751-bb19-be818f59c3ef"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242594"
source_hash: "eb24c9ee83f0330a8f0783373b2f0b1b7a11e831572c6f2a950ee1a3120ca8be"
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 740 (2022) — EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: Provides relative to the sale, transportation, and acceptance of propane and other fuels during a declared disaster or emergency

## Version chain

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

1. **HB740 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1257845)
2. **HB740 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283065)
3. **HB740 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261274)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1464, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260933)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1503, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261253)
6. **HB740 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278572)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#560) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#101) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Buddy Mincey — 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. 73. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-15** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/12/2022.
- **2022-05-12** 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 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/29/2022.
- **2022-03-23** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-22** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `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 Commerce. `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/5649669c-5f27-4751-bb19-be818f59c3ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).