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Bill	BUDGETARY CONTROLS: Requires the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a voluntary environmental self-audit program	BUDGETARY CONTROLS: Requires the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a voluntary environmental self-audit program	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2021	HB 72	Louisiana HB 72 (2021)	bill		enacted	Jean-Paul Coussan	15	32	3	2021-03-08	2021-06-29	openstates	ocd-bill/16693981-f295-4a7f-9e22-71e3b85527f5	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239867	09ba039aaf26cec5ebf3cc02e7be332fd68e71726d5fed2c508ff84b7d579c6b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 72 (2021) — BUDGETARY CONTROLS: Requires the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a voluntary environmental self-audit program

Version chain

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

1. HB72 Original (filed) — source
2. HB72 Act 481 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB72 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB72 Re-Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HB72 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1563, NATR, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #2062, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. House Committee Amendment, #2183, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. House Committee Amendment, #2202, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. House Floor Amendment, #2909, Coussan, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #2494, ENVQ, Draft (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Committee Amendment, #2584, ENVQ, Draft (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Committee Amendment, #2606, ENVQ, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2740, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
15. HB72 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#845) — 33–4 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1088) — 88–4 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#458) — 87–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jean-Paul Coussan — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-29 Effective date: 08/01/2021.
• 2021-06-29 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 481. executive-signature
• 2021-06-11 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2021-06-09 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2021-06-09 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2021-06-08 Read by title, roll called, yeas 88, nays 4. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
• 2021-06-07 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
• 2021-06-07 Received from the Senate with amendments.
• 2021-06-07 Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 4 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2021-05-27 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2021-05-26 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2021-05-25 Reported with amendments.
• 2021-05-18 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality. referral-committee
• 2021-05-17 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2021-05-13 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 8. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2021-05-12 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2021.
• 2021-05-12 Notice given.
• 2021-05-12 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2021-05-12 Called from the calendar.
• 2021-05-12 Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
• 2021-05-11 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2021.
• 2021-05-11 Notice given.
• 2021-05-11 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2021-05-06 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
• 2021-05-05 Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2021-05-04 Reported with amendments (8-6).
• 2021-04-27 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
• 2021-04-26 Reported with amendments (12-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
• 2021-04-12 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. referral-committee
• 2021-03-12 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/12/2021.
• 2021-03-09 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. referral-committee
• 2021-03-08 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/16693981-f295-4a7f-9e22-71e3b85527f5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).