Louisiana Climate & Environment Bills

LOCAL FINANCE: Provides for lead service line replacement. (8/1/26)

ENVIRONMENT/ENFORCEMENT: Authorizes parishes and municipalities to declare bans on burning

WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides for charter boat fishing guide licenses

SEWERAGE/N O WATER BD: Provides relative to employees of the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board

FISHING: Adds Atlantic tarpon to the definition of saltwater game fish

FISH/FISHING: Provides for anchorage in certain waterways with fishing gear restriction. (8/1/26)

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: Provides for lead hazard risk assessments for certain child care facilities and prekindergarten programs. (8/1/26) (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)

ENERGY: Creates the Louisiana Energy Protection Act (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

HIGHWAYS: Authorizes municipalities to establish fire limits and to prohibit the storage, placement, accumulation, abandonment, or use of certain materials within the right-of-way of certain public structures

WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Memorializes Congress and the United States Forest Service to take such actions as are necessary to allow the use of dogs for hunting in the Kisatchie National Forest

CONGRESS: Memorializes Congress to oppose any effort to transfer, divest, privatize, or dispose of Kisatchie National Forest lands or otherwise remove such lands from federal ownership and management

NATURAL RESOURCES DEPT: Urges and requests the Department of Conservation and Energy to study the implementation of gravel surface mining reclamation and conservation

ENERGY/OIL & GAS WELLS: Urges and requests the Department of Conservation and Energy to study the state's liability for oil and gas well decommissioning across the value chain

LAW ENFORCEMENT: Creates a Task Force on Utility Terrain Vehicles in collaboration with Louisiana State Police and other appropriate stakeholders

LEGISLATIVE POWERS: Urges and requests the Department of Conservation and Energy in consultation with the United States Geological Survey to study seismic activity in Northwest Louisiana parishes and develop a seismic monitoring strategy for Louisiana

WATER/RESOURCES: Urges and requests the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the Department of Conservation and Energy to study cooperative endeavor agreements for the withdrawal of surface water

ENERGY: Recognizes the value of geothermal energy development in the state

ENERGY: Creates the Task Force on Advanced Drilling to study the impacts of carbon storage on mineral rights and oil and gas operations

ENVIRONMENT: Creates the Task Force on Seismic Activity

WILDLIFE/HABITAT: Urges and requests the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to study the impact of flooded corn on migratory waterfowl behavior and to reinstate the enforcement mechanism that restricted the growth of hunting over intentionally flooding standing crops