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type: "Bill"
title: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Environmental Quality. (6/30/18)"
description: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Environmental Quality. (6/30/18)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 82"
citation: "Louisiana SB 82 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Walsworth"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-25"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5eab5943-ef1c-449e-a790-498fc4ce18a9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233339"
source_hash: "0ad41949aa00c57a11ff447b11a89e0b2a5a4446c917cb0d8a804173d0adc552"
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 82 (2018) — SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Environmental Quality. (6/30/18)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB82 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1067131)
2. **SB82 Act 25** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097219)
3. **SB82 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1078934)
4. **SB82 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1091302)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#185) — **360** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#625) — **840** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Mike Walsworth — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-05-10** Effective date 6/30/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 25. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-02** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-04-30** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2018-04-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 84, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/18.
- **2018-04-16** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2018-04-12** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2018-04-02** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-03-27** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-03-26** Reported favorably.
- **2018-03-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-25** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality. `filing, referral-committee`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5eab5943-ef1c-449e-a790-498fc4ce18a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).