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LouisianaHB 7272026 Regular SessionHouse

ENVIRONMENT: Provides for the burning of untreated, unpainted dimensional lumber

Sponsored By: Daryl Andrew Deshotel (Republican)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Louisiana limits agency bans on burning lumber

Louisiana's Department of Environmental Quality cannot ban burning untreated, unpainted dimensional lumber or wood mats under this law. The department must adopt rules to carry out the law, following the Administrative Procedure Act.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Daryl Andrew Deshotel

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Charles Owen

    Republican • House

  • Danny McCormick

    Republican • House

  • Michael "Gabe" Firment

    Republican • House

  • Jacob Jules Landry

    Republican • House

  • Jason Brian DeWitt

    Republican • House

  • Jessica Domangue

    Republican • House

  • Joy Walters

    Democratic • House

  • Michael Charles Echols

    Republican • House

  • Michael Melerine

    Republican • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • Rodney Schamerhorn

    Republican • House

  • Sylvia Elaine Taylor

    Democratic • House

  • Tony Bacala

    Republican • House

  • Wilford Carter Sr.

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 241 • No: 0

House vote • 5/13/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 96 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/7/2026

Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

House vote • 3/30/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 98 • No: 0

House vote • 3/24/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 315.

    5/22/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/22/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/19/2026House

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

    5/18/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/18/2026Senate

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    5/13/2026House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/13/2026.

    5/12/2026House

  8. Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/7/2026Senate

  9. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/7/2026House

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

    4/28/2026Senate

  11. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    4/27/2026Senate

  12. Reported with amendments.

    4/22/2026Senate

  13. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

    4/1/2026Senate

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

    3/31/2026Senate

  15. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    3/30/2026House

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

    3/26/2026House

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

    3/25/2026House

  18. Reported favorably (12-0).

    3/24/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  20. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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