republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2022/sb-245.md

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Bill	NATURAL RESOURCES DEPT: Provides for the Orphan Well Program. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE FF EX See Note)	NATURAL RESOURCES DEPT: Provides for the Orphan Well Program. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE FF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2022	SB 245	Louisiana SB 245 (2022)	bill		enacted	R. L. Bret Allain, II	6	20	2	2022-03-03	2022-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/e2b182fa-fa6a-4559-a381-3f6ab9cf9ae8	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242221	cbe883f8022148d829d99af238864505fab149e2b0cddbac20e5b2d89a49db5e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 245 (2022) — NATURAL RESOURCES DEPT: Provides for the Orphan Well Program. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE FF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB245 Original (filed) — source
2. SB245 Act 10 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB245 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Amendment, #651, NATR, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Committee Amendment, #679, NATR, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. SB245 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#138) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#740) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• R. L. Bret Allain, II — primary (person)
• Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-05-13 Effective date 5/13/2022.
• 2022-05-13 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 10. executive-signature
• 2022-05-12 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2022-05-11 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2022-05-11 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2022-05-10 Received from the House without amendments.
• 2022-05-10 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2022-05-05 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2022.
• 2022-04-21 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2022-04-20 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2022-04-19 Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2022-04-05 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. referral-committee
• 2022-04-04 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2022-04-04 Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2022-03-29 Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2022-03-28 Reported favorably.
• 2022-03-21 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2022-03-16 Reported with amendments.
• 2022-03-14 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. referral-committee
• 2022-03-03 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e2b182fa-fa6a-4559-a381-3f6ab9cf9ae8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).