republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-397.md

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Bill	UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law	UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 397	Louisiana HB 397 (2024)	bill		enacted	Vincent J. St. Blanc , III	8	19	2	2024-02-29	2024-05-15	openstates	ocd-bill/ce66a389-9417-46e9-a871-7052927addc7	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246083	901bd6e0dbf9ed0879546b98b0b39d80da103216c4c2693da0935fd1cd703d2a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 397 (2024) — UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law

Version chain

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

1. HB397 Original (filed) — source
2. HB397 Act 75 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB397 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB397 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1270, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1414, COM, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #1535, St. Blanc, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. HB397 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#583) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#68) — 101–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-15 Effective date: 01/01/2025.
• 2024-05-15 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 75. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-09 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-08 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-08 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-07 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-07 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-04-30 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-04-29 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-04-24 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-26 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-03-25 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-03-21 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-03-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 03/21/2024.
• 2024-03-20 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-03-19 Reported with amendments (15-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ce66a389-9417-46e9-a871-7052927addc7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).