---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to liability and damages resulting from carbon sequestration"
description: "CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to liability and damages resulting from carbon sequestration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 169"
citation: "Louisiana HB 169 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Carter"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01fe3946-a0d8-463a-bc31-35080ddc0a0f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245743"
source_hash: "4ffa48914f34b14d88369beb91ca6cdcf9d619814f25a7b11f525e5224773779"
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 169 (2024) — CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to liability and damages resulting from carbon sequestration

## Version chain

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

1. **HB169 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346585)
2. **HB169 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381892)
3. **HB169 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366697)
4. **HB169 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369152)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3219, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366511)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3226, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366538)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3464, Carter, Robby, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367578)
8. **HB169 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378379)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1146) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#686) — **97–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robert Carter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 415. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-24** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2024.
- **2024-04-18** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-17** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01fe3946-a0d8-463a-bc31-35080ddc0a0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).