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LouisianaHB 6972026 Regular SessionHouse

SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Environmental Quality

Sponsored By: Brett F. Geymann (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Environmental QualityNatural Resources and Environment

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Bill Overview

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1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Louisiana environmental agency renewed with sunset date

Beginning June 30, 2026, the law re-creates Louisiana’s Department of Environmental Quality and the entities placed within it by law. Their scheduled shutdown begins July 1, 2030. Their legal authority ends July 1, 2031, unless the department is re-created earlier through the state’s sunset review process. The law also replaces the department’s prior sunset listing and overrides conflicting state sunset rules.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Brett F. Geymann

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 147 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/27/2026

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

Yes: 36 • No: 0

House vote • 3/30/2026

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

Yes: 96 • No: 0

House vote • 3/24/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 15 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

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

    5/11/2026House

  2. Effective date: 06/30/2026.

    5/11/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/5/2026House

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/4/2026Senate

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

    4/29/2026House

  6. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    4/28/2026House

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

    4/27/2026Senate

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

    4/20/2026Senate

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

    4/15/2026Senate

  10. Rules suspended. Reported favorably.

    4/14/2026Senate

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

    3/31/2026Senate

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

    3/30/2026House

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

    3/30/2026Senate

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

    3/26/2026House

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

    3/25/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (15-0).

    3/24/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  18. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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