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type: "Bill"
title: "MINERALS: Provides relative to brine. (8/1/24)"
description: "MINERALS: Provides relative to brine. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 285"
citation: "Louisiana SB 285 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stewart Cathey , Jr."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16909341-8ad4-4473-b28f-b62e1cdcc423"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246552"
source_hash: "829ba039bb33d9542a46dc1abf1276f03ee0ccd36fea38b5d6c381fc445b2e5d"
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 SB 285 (2024) — MINERALS: Provides relative to brine. (8/1/24)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB285 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352613)
2. **SB285 Act 126** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378109)
3. **SB285 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359021)
4. **SB285 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364007)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1298, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358797)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1342, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358922)
7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1460, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360624)
8. **SB285 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374590)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1061) — **970** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#237) — **50** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#236) — **360** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — primary (person)
- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-05-22** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 126. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-14** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2024.
- **2024-04-29** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-10** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-09** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-27** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `filing, referral-committee`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16909341-8ad4-4473-b28f-b62e1cdcc423`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).