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Louisiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 294: TAX/SEVERANCE TAX: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to severance tax revenues remitted to parishes in which the associated severance occurs (EG -$65,000,000 GF RV See Note)

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 294 is a bill introduced in the Louisiana House on April 2, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: TAX/SEVERANCE TAX: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to severance tax revenues remitted to parishes in which the associated severance occurs (EG -$65,000,000 GF RV See Note). Primary sponsor: Larry Bagley (Republican). It lists 22 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 4, 2025): Rules suspended.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 20

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Larry BagleyPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse7
Beryl AmedéeCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse51
Dennis BamburgCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse5
Beau BeaullieuCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse48
Ryan BourriaqueCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse47
Jacob BraudCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse105
Josh CarlsonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse43
Vincent CoxCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse85
Peter EganCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse74
Julie EmersonCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Gabe FirmentCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse22
Adrian FisherCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse16
Barbara FreibergCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse70
Troy HebertCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse31
Dodie HortonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse9
Jacob LandryCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse49
Danny McCormickCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse1
Michael MelerineCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse6
Chuck OwenCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse30
Rodney SchamerhornCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse24
Joe StagniCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Roger WilderCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse71
John WybleCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse75

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Rules suspended.
  2. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
  3. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
  4. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
  5. Reported favorably.
  6. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
  7. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
  8. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
  9. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025.
  10. Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
  11. Reported without amendments (11-0).
  12. Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

Showing 12 most recent of 16 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source