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Louisiana 2026

HB 697

SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Environmental Quality

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Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
Louisiana
Session
2026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Not supplied
Introduced / first action
2026-02-27 00:00:00

Sponsors

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 83.

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  2. Effective date: 06/30/2026.

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

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  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

  5. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

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  6. Received from the Senate without amendments.

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  7. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

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  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

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  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  10. Rules suspended. Reported favorably.

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  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality.

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  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

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  13. Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

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  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/30/2026.

  15. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

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  16. Reported favorably (15-0).

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  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.

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  18. Prefiled.

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  19. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.

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  20. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

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