republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-459.md

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Bill	ENERGY/ALTERNATE: Provides for renewable energy regulation and permitting	ENERGY/ALTERNATE: Provides for renewable energy regulation and permitting	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 459	Louisiana HB 459 (2025)	bill		enacted	Kimberly Coates	12	27	3	2025-04-04	2025-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/e1fdc452-ede6-415c-a32f-4d1a8754fe8c	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248467	294177df7789731bddb532c09cb92efd25b6783e5237eaa91c50d676b6c58bf3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 459 (2025) — ENERGY/ALTERNATE: Provides for renewable energy regulation and permitting

Version chain

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

1. HB459 Original (filed) — source
2. HB459 Act 279 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB459 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB459 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1502, NATR, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1546, NATR, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #1811, Coates, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #2809, Coates, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #2336, NATR, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #2439, NATR, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Floor Amendment, #2567, Hensgens, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. HB459 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#881) — 73–13 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#615) — 32–3 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#383) — 75–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kimberly Coates — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-11 Effective date: 08/01/2025.
• 2025-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 279. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-09 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-08 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-08 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-04 Read by title, roll called, yeas 73, nays 13, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2025-06-03 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
• 2025-06-03 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-02 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 3 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-06-01 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-06-01 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2025-05-29 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-19 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-13 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 75, nays 18. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-13 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-05-13 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-05-13 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-05-08 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2025.
• 2025-05-08 Notice given.
• 2025-04-29 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-04-28 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025.
• 2025-04-24 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-04-23 Reported with amendments (9-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e1fdc452-ede6-415c-a32f-4d1a8754fe8c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).