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type: "Bill"
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title: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law"
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description: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2024"
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identifier: "HB 397"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 397 (2024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Vincent J. St. Blanc , III"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 19
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2024-02-29"
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last_action: "2024-05-15"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce66a389-9417-46e9-a871-7052927addc7"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246083"
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source_hash: "901bd6e0dbf9ed0879546b98b0b39d80da103216c4c2693da0935fd1cd703d2a"
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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 397 (2024) — UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law
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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. **HB397 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350285)
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2. **HB397 Act 75** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375967)
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3. **HB397 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355889)
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4. **HB397 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356922)
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5. **House Committee Amendment, #1270, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354683)
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6. **House Committee Amendment, #1414, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355836)
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7. **House Floor Amendment, #1535, St. Blanc, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356555)
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8. **HB397 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372565)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#583) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#68) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-05-15** Effective date: 01/01/2025.
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- **2024-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 75. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2024-05-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2024-05-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2024-05-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
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- **2024-05-07** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
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- **2024-05-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
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- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
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- **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-03-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2024-03-25** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
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- **2024-03-21** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2024-03-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/21/2024.
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- **2024-03-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2024-03-19** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-02-29** 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/ce66a389-9417-46e9-a871-7052927addc7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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