--- type: "Bill" title: "MINERALS: Provides for carbon sequestration. (8/1/25) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)" description: "MINERALS: Provides for carbon sequestration. (8/1/25) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "SB 36" citation: "Louisiana SB 36 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Bob Hensgens"] version_count: 10 action_count: 46 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2025-03-31" last_action: "2025-06-20" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/524d84aa-d916-4eee-9ffb-ec2745f09f66" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248091" source_hash: "47285dcb37b8155b77d838a1d960b5a11ff08931771ac35ca05f1e86e720108b" 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 SB 36 (2025) — MINERALS: Provides for carbon sequestration. (8/1/25) (EN NO IMPACT See Note) ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **SB36 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400319) 2. **House Committee Amendment, #3572, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418464) 3. **House Committee Amendment, #3610, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418599) 4. **House Floor Amendment, #4023, Geymann, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421356) 5. **House Floor Amendment, #4285, Geymann, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423472) 6. **SB36 Act 407** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425937) 7. **SB36 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413045) 8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1467, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412910) 9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #555, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405891) 10. **SB36 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425222) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#259) — **36–0** (pass) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#1043) — **100–2** (pass) · lower - DISCHARGE, SB 36 BY HENSGENS (#979) — **36–0** (pass) · upper - ADOPT (#989) — **31–0** (pass) · upper - REJECT (#928) — **35–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Bob Hensgens — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-06-20** Effective date 6/20/2025. - **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 407. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/13/2025. `executive-receipt` - **2025-06-12** Signed by the Speaker of the House. - **2025-06-12** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/13/2025. `enrolled` - **2025-06-12** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays. - **2025-06-12** House Conference Committee members discharged. - **2025-06-12** Discharged from Conference Committee. - **2025-06-12** Notice Senate discharged from Conference Committee. - **2025-06-12** By a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays. - **2025-06-12** Senate Conference Committee members discharged. - **2025-06-12** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed. - **2025-06-12** House conferees appointed: Geymann, Jacob Landry, and Coates. - **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate conferees appointed. - **2025-06-11** Senate conference committee members appointed: Hensgens, Lambert, and Talbot. - **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments. - **2025-06-11** Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays. - **2025-06-11** Called from the Calendar. - **2025-06-10** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call. - **2025-06-09** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt` - **2025-06-09** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 2. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2025-06-09** Called from the calendar. - **2025-06-09** Read by title, returned to the calendar. - **2025-06-09** Called from the calendar. - **2025-06-09** Read by title, returned to the calendar. - **2025-06-09** Called from the calendar. - **2025-06-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/09/2025. - **2025-06-08** Notice given. - **2025-06-08** Read by title, returned to the calendar. - **2025-06-08** Called from the calendar. - **2025-06-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025. - **2025-06-03** Notice given. - **2025-06-03** Read by title, returned to the calendar. - **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025. - **2025-06-02** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2025-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. - **2025-05-28** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-05-19** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee` - **2025-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules. - **2025-05-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2025-05-14** Called from the Calendar. - **2025-05-13** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call. - **2025-05-12** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage. - **2025-05-08** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee` - **2025-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `filing, referral-committee` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/524d84aa-d916-4eee-9ffb-ec2745f09f66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).