---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENVIRONMENT/ENFORCEMENT: Provides for the maximum civil penalty for citations issued through the expedited enforcement program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "ENVIRONMENT/ENFORCEMENT: Provides for the maximum civil penalty for citations issued through the expedited enforcement program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 286"
citation: "Louisiana HB 286 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chance Henry"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21c9e434-e989-41e3-b677-7c1a50155397"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248251"
source_hash: "e92491aa6d55fd75393ab4160c19e171e93713993ef1ea5b77d8b5a4eada238b"
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 286 (2025) — ENVIRONMENT/ENFORCEMENT: Provides for the maximum civil penalty for citations issued through the expedited enforcement program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB286 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402135)
2. **HB286 Act 492** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427681)
3. **HB286 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414741)
4. **HB286 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422896)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#483) — **87–7** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#698) — **34–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chance Henry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-07-01** Becomes Act No. 492 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Quality.
- **2025-05-27** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2025-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 7. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
- **2025-05-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21c9e434-e989-41e3-b677-7c1a50155397`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).