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type: "Bill"
title: "TAX/SEVERANCE TAX: Reduces the rate of severance tax on oil produced from newly completed wells and provides relative to special rates on oil produced from certain limited-production wells (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)"
description: "TAX/SEVERANCE TAX: Reduces the rate of severance tax on oil produced from newly completed wells and provides relative to special rates on oil produced from certain limited-production wells (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 600"
citation: "Louisiana HB 600 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brett Geymann"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d649cd04-b3d9-462a-824d-f358ca64e462"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248679"
source_hash: "0c0c7f21d3a2d77e58176394c2d09b48fc2f67399b36b1f5ba8ff98833dc9171"
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 HB 600 (2025) — TAX/SEVERANCE TAX: Reduces the rate of severance tax on oil produced from newly completed wells and provides relative to special rates on oil produced from certain limited-production wells (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB600 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404541)
2. **HB600 Act 295** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425609)
3. **HB600 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410998)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2563, R&F, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420069)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2601, R&F, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420226)
6. **HB600 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423447)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#732) — **390** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#306) — **897** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1014) — **1030** (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. 295. `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 103, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **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 39 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 favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-03** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2025-06-03** Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
- **2025-06-02** Reported with amendments. `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 89, nays 7. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2025.
- **2025-05-06** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-05** Reported favorably (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d649cd04-b3d9-462a-824d-f358ca64e462`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).