republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-571.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENERGY: Provides relative to carbon capture and sequestration (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)"
description: "ENERGY: Provides relative to carbon capture and sequestration (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 571"
citation: "Louisiana HB 571 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clay Schexnayder"]
version_count: 22
action_count: 39
vote_count: 13
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ce0c9bd-f965-40fa-b836-9d4740def370"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244567"
source_hash: "74d79937edcc532e4d656a15d8fd6107f0b11538d7922f2bc2165f2545e0ec67"
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 571 (2023) — ENERGY: Provides relative to carbon capture and sequestration (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB571 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309864)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4075, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329897)
3. **HB571 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332572)
4. **HB571 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314372)
5. **HB571 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321513)
6. **HB571 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317825)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1227, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312109)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #1229, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312293)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #1495, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314099)
10. **House Committee Amendment, #1792, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315522)
11. **House Committee Amendment, #2088, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317682)
12. **House Committee Amendment, #944, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313449)
13. **House Floor Amendment, #2567, Schexnayder, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320183)
14. **House Floor Amendment, #2624, McCormick, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320633)
15. **House Floor Amendment, #2633, McCormick, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320529)
16. **House Floor Amendment, #2764, Carter, Robby, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321326)
17. **House Floor Amendment, #2766, Carter, Robby, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321316)
18. **House Floor Amendment, #2790, Carter, Robby, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321393)
19. **House Floor Amendment, #2803, Cormier, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321445)
20. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #744, Horton, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314507)
21. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2410, Hensgens, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326911)
22. **HB571 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332067)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#618) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- 3 MINUTE RULE (#315) — **53–45** (pass) · lower
- 5 MINUTE RULE (#316) — **52–44** (fail) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2766 BY CARTER, R., MOTION TO ADOPT (#318) — **15–77** (fail) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1041) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2624 BY MCCORMICK, MOTION TO ADOPT (#321) — **17–76** (fail) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1247) — **83–9** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2633 BY MCCORMICK, MOTION TO ADOPT (#320) — **17–78** (fail) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2803 BY CORMIER, MOTION TO ADOPT (#322) — **9–84** (fail) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2764 BY CARTER, R., MOTION TO ADOPT (#317) — **18–73** (fail) · lower
- ADOPT (#1040) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#323) — **98–1** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2790 BY CARTER, R., MOTION TO ADOPT (#319) — **26–68** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clay Schexnayder — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-14** Effective date: 06/14/2023.
- **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 378. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/9/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-08** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 83, nays 9. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee report received.
- **2023-06-07** Notice of change in House Conference Committee membership.
- **2023-06-07** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2023-06-07** Notice of change in House conferees: Schexnayder,Coussan, Riser.
- **2023-06-07** House conferees appointed: Schexnayder, Coussan, and Bourriaque.
- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2023-06-06** Senate conference committee members appointed: Hensgens, Fesi, and Lambert.
- **2023-06-06** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-30** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-29** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-22** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-05-18** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-11** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2023.
- **2023-05-02** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** Reported with amendments (19-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-04-20** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ce0c9bd-f965-40fa-b836-9d4740def370`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).