republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-65.md

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Bill	SUNSET LAW: Recreates Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources. (6/30/24)	SUNSET LAW: Recreates Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources. (6/30/24)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 65	Louisiana SB 65 (2024)	bill		enacted	Bob Hensgens	6	18	2	2024-02-27	2024-05-15	openstates	ocd-bill/6c3d396d-0568-44a4-b6c3-c52c213334d0	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245871	7c6e3d3fa36ecb16d504472507e7624a2ea46bfb339595190b06e7e0e6736f99	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 65 (2024) — SUNSET LAW: Recreates Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources. (6/30/24)

Version chain

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

1. SB65 Original (filed) — source
2. SB65 Act 50 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB65 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Amendment, #654, NATR, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Committee Amendment, #765, NATR, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. SB65 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#46) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#845) — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bob Hensgens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-15 Effective date 6/30/2024.
• 2024-05-15 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 50. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-08 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-07 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2024-05-07 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2024-05-06 Received from the House without amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-01 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-23 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/2024.
• 2024-04-02 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-03-27 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-03-26 Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-21 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-03-19 Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-03-18 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-03-13 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
• 2024-02-27 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/6c3d396d-0568-44a4-b6c3-c52c213334d0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).