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LA HB380

Bill

Status

Introduced

4/3/2025

Primary Sponsor

Rodney Schamerhorn

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Eliminates the authority of corporations and other entities to use eminent domain (expropriation) for carbon dioxide geologic sequestration projects and CO2 pipeline transportation for underground storage

  • Removes the statutory declaration that geologic storage of carbon dioxide is "in the public interest for a public purpose"

  • Preserves eminent domain authority only for CO2 pipelines used in secondary/tertiary oil and gas enhanced recovery projects approved by the commissioner of conservation

  • Repeals R.S. 19:2(11) and R.S. 30:1108 in their entirety, which provided the legal basis for CO2 sequestration-related property expropriation

  • Amends permit requirements by removing references to eminent domain as a condition precedent to using reservoirs for carbon dioxide storage

Legislative Description

Removes eminent domain authority for carbon dioxide sequestration

ENERGY/CONSERVATION

Last Action

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

4/14/2025

Committee Referrals

Natural Resources and Environment4/3/2025

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