republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2022/hb-708.md

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Bill	ENERGY: Defines biomass as it relates to the Louisiana Renewable Energy Development Act	ENERGY: Defines biomass as it relates to the Louisiana Renewable Energy Development Act	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2022	HB 708	Louisiana HB 708 (2022)	bill		enacted	Jack McFarland	9	22	3	2022-03-04	2022-06-03	openstates	ocd-bill/f2c23f26-19a1-4dd4-ad82-cb56e12c88fb	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242517	6a021245f273daea18e2767628eb46abbc06b45b4c95458af6d54615c3102a2d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 708 (2022) — ENERGY: Defines biomass as it relates to the Louisiana Renewable Energy Development Act

Version chain

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

1. HB708 Original (filed) — source
2. HB708 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB708 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1381, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1396, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1440, COM, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #2984, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #3048, COM, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. HB708 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1017) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#74) — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#683) — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jack McFarland — primary (person)
• Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
• Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
• Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
• Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
• R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
• Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
• Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-03 Effective date: 08/01/2022.
• 2022-06-03 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 275. executive-signature
• 2022-05-24 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2022-05-24 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2022-05-23 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2022-05-19 Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2022-05-17 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/19/2022.
• 2022-05-17 Received from the Senate with amendments.
• 2022-05-17 Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2022-05-15 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2022-05-12 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2022-05-11 Reported with amendments.
• 2022-03-29 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. referral-committee
• 2022-03-28 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2022-03-24 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2022-03-23 Scheduled for floor debate on 03/24/2022.
• 2022-03-22 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2022-03-21 Reported with amendments (11-0).
• 2022-03-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. referral-committee
• 2022-03-04 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
• 2022-03-04 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. referral-committee
• 2022-03-04 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f2c23f26-19a1-4dd4-ad82-cb56e12c88fb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).