---
type: "Bill"
title: "COASTAL RESOURCES: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to the disposition of funds derived from alternative energy production in the coastal area (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)"
description: "COASTAL RESOURCES: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to the disposition of funds derived from alternative energy production in the coastal area (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 300"
citation: "Louisiana HB 300 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Orgeron"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4252126-5449-4c2c-83fa-5eceafbcd975"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245938"
source_hash: "5877cc8568e999d51991918afe0b3e9a01ebba80a0698d9ef655b01b2ab725dc"
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 300 (2024) — COASTAL RESOURCES: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to the disposition of funds derived from alternative energy production in the coastal area (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB300 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348843)
2. **HB300 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381886)
3. **HB300 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355535)
4. **HB300 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380712)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#158) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1362) — **33–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joseph Orgeron — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-04** Becomes Act No. 408. `became-law`
- **2024-06-04** Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 3 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs.
- **2024-05-28** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2024-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/02/2024.
- **2024-03-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-25** Reported without amendments (11-0-1).
- **2024-03-20** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
- **2024-03-19** Reported favorably (23-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4252126-5449-4c2c-83fa-5eceafbcd975`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).