---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENERGY/CONSERVATION: Provides relative to landowner liability for carbon dioxide sequestration"
description: "ENERGY/CONSERVATION: Provides relative to landowner liability for carbon dioxide sequestration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 937"
citation: "Louisiana HB 937 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brett Geymann"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a7a072e-65cf-4315-8d20-0252df205806"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247156"
source_hash: "64812bb151d449f6b7ae4cf292a7122c8e8030b1e795d2a922e6d5f8557b03cf"
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 937 (2024) — ENERGY/CONSERVATION: Provides relative to landowner liability for carbon dioxide sequestration

## Version chain

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

1. **HB937 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361356)
2. **HB937 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381941)
3. **HB937 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363960)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2507, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362975)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2664, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363807)
6. **HB937 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377508)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#541) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1068) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brett Geymann — 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. 461. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-21** 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Reported favorably. `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, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-16** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024.
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a7a072e-65cf-4315-8d20-0252df205806`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).