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type: "Bill"
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title: "ENERGY/ALTERNATE: Provides for renewable energy regulation and permitting"
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description: "ENERGY/ALTERNATE: Provides for renewable energy regulation and permitting"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 459"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 459 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Kimberly Coates"]
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version_count: 12
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action_count: 27
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2025-04-04"
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last_action: "2025-06-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1fdc452-ede6-415c-a32f-4d1a8754fe8c"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248467"
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source_hash: "294177df7789731bddb532c09cb92efd25b6783e5237eaa91c50d676b6c58bf3"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# Louisiana HB 459 (2025) — ENERGY/ALTERNATE: Provides for renewable energy regulation and permitting
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB459 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403723)
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2. **HB459 Act 279** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425593)
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3. **HB459 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407698)
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4. **HB459 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414578)
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5. **House Committee Amendment, #1502, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407439)
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6. **House Committee Amendment, #1546, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407633)
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7. **House Floor Amendment, #1811, Coates, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408901)
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8. **House Floor Amendment, #2809, Coates, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414346)
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9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2336, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418787)
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10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2439, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419286)
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11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2567, Hensgens, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420098)
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12. **HB459 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422176)
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## Votes
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- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#881) — **73–13** (pass) · lower
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#615) — **32–3** (pass) · upper
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#383) — **75–18** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Kimberly Coates — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
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- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 279. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2025-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
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- **2025-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 73, nays 13, Senate amendments concurred in.
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- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
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- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
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- **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`
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- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
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- **2025-06-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2025-05-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
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- **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`
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- **2025-05-13** Called from the calendar.
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- **2025-05-13** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
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- **2025-05-13** Called from the calendar.
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- **2025-05-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2025.
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- **2025-05-08** Notice given.
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- **2025-04-29** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
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- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025.
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- **2025-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-23** Reported with amendments (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1fdc452-ede6-415c-a32f-4d1a8754fe8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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