---
type: "Bill"
title: "PROPERTY/EXPROPRIATION: Provides relative to eminent domain"
description: "PROPERTY/EXPROPRIATION: Provides relative to eminent domain"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 492"
citation: "Louisiana HB 492 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brett Geymann"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 42
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ff32dfc-f0ca-475d-8e6b-a0f9290555e9"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246250"
source_hash: "ff0177c2a36d4a3572edbc436bd162b24def5d4649312adcfd7e9b79b0725038"
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 492 (2024) — PROPERTY/EXPROPRIATION: Provides relative to eminent domain

## Version chain

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

1. **HB492 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351326)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #5128, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378426)
3. **HB492 Act 620** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382349)
4. **HB492 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364029)
5. **HB492 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366377)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2490, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362956)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2662, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363798)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3115, Geymann, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365939)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1871, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364563)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2748, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370216)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2898, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371005)
12. **HB492 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381139)

## Votes

- ADOPT (#1409) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1383) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1067) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#540) — **94–4** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1644) — **88–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brett Geymann — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date: See Act.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 620. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-31** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-05-31** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-30** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-05-30** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 88, nays 2. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2024-05-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Conference committee report received.
- **2024-05-28** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2024-05-28** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2024-05-28** Senate conference committee members appointed: Allain, Hensgens, and Seabaugh.
- **2024-05-23** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2024-05-23** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2024-05-23** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2024-05-23** House conferees appointed: Geymann, Riser, and Jacob Landry.
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/23/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-21** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-21** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-16** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-16** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2024-04-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024.
- **2024-04-15** Notice given.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** 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`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ff32dfc-f0ca-475d-8e6b-a0f9290555e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).