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LouisianaHB 792026 Regular SessionHouse

CIVIL/LAW: Removes damage threshold for carbon capture release

Sponsored By: Robby Carter (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary ACivil Law and Procedure

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Carbon injury claimants can seek higher damages

Louisiana removes limits on damages for pain, suffering, and other noneconomic harm in carbon dioxide lawsuits. This covers claims against storage facility or transmission pipeline owners or operators, and carbon dioxide generators. The former caps were $250,000 per person generally and $500,000 for specified severe injuries or wrongful death. A $1 million fallback cap applied if the main caps were invalidated. The law sets no replacement cap, so claimants can seek amounts above those former limits.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Robby Carter

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Charles Owen

    Republican • House

  • Danny McCormick

    Republican • House

  • Mike Johnson

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 181 • No: 45

House vote • 5/29/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 79, nays 18, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 79 • No: 18

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 32 • No: 2

House vote • 5/11/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 70, nays 25. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 70 • No: 25

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 614.

    6/2/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/2/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/1/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/1/2026House

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

    5/31/2026House

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 79, nays 18, Senate amendments concurred in.

    5/29/2026House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.

    5/27/2026House

  8. Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/26/2026Senate

  9. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/26/2026House

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

    5/21/2026Senate

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

    5/20/2026Senate

  12. Reported with amendments.

    5/19/2026Senate

  13. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

    5/12/2026Senate

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 70, nays 25. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/11/2026House

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

    5/11/2026Senate

  16. Called from the calendar.

    5/7/2026House

  17. Rules suspended.

    5/7/2026House

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

    5/7/2026House

  19. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2026.

    5/7/2026House

  20. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/28/2026House

  21. Reported favorably (6-0-1).

    4/27/2026House

  22. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

    3/9/2026House

  23. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/6/2026.

    2/6/2026House

  24. Prefiled.

    2/3/2026House

  25. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

    2/3/2026House

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