republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-495.md

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Bill	TAX/SEVERANCE TAX: Limits the severance tax exemption for gas produced from certain horizontally drilled wells (EN +$8,600,000 GF RV See Note)	TAX/SEVERANCE TAX: Limits the severance tax exemption for gas produced from certain horizontally drilled wells (EN +$8,600,000 GF RV See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 495	Louisiana HB 495 (2025)	bill		enacted	Brett Geymann	8	26	3	2025-04-04	2025-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/a1d638e8-597c-46da-8cbe-050b2960e804	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248527	1cf1527d0e8a61d3db2d9cf8b9dd361a5f1c826c6fea50abb18811005c41d11a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 495 (2025) — TAX/SEVERANCE TAX: Limits the severance tax exemption for gas produced from certain horizontally drilled wells (EN +$8,600,000 GF RV See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB495 Original (filed) — source
2. HB495 Act 284 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB495 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #2143, W&M, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2211, W&M, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #2807, FNCE, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #2847, FNCE, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. HB495 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#733) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1015) — 101–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#307) — 97–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brett Geymann — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-11 Effective date: See Act.
• 2025-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 284. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-10 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-10 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-09 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-09 Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2025-06-09 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-06-09 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-06-08 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
• 2025-06-08 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-08 Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-06-04 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-06-04 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-03 Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2025-06-02 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-12 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-08 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-08 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-08 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-05-08 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-05-06 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2025.
• 2025-05-06 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-05 Reported with amendments (13-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a1d638e8-597c-46da-8cbe-050b2960e804. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).