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type: "Bill"
title: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to underground utilities"
description: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to underground utilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 69"
citation: "Louisiana HB 69 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott McKnight"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-05"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec17e154-d7a0-4d2d-850c-4cfaa676aa09"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239862"
source_hash: "dd452704587d58a0bf790fc1e37026fda81cb7603678ae957755c76cc7e848f9"
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 69 (2021) — UTILITIES: Provides relative to underground utilities
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB69 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1202433)
2. **HB69 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230359)
3. **HB69 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215073)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1253, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214615)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1266, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214659)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1332, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215055)
7. **HB69 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226079)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#391) — **350** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#42) — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Scott McKnight — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-01** Effective date: 01/02/2022.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 9. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-19** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-18** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-18** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-12** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/21/2021.
- **2021-04-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-19** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/12/2021.
- **2021-03-08** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-05** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/5/2021.
- **2021-03-05** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ec17e154-d7a0-4d2d-850c-4cfaa676aa09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).