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LA HB608

Bill

Status

Introduced

4/4/2025

Primary Sponsor

Kimberly Coates

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Prohibits all weather modification activities in Louisiana, including solar radiation modification, cloud-seeding, geoengineering, and stratospheric aerosol injection via aircraft, balloons, ground generators, or space-based platforms

  • Establishes a $200,000 civil penalty for any person or entity that violates the prohibition on atmospheric modification activities

  • Creates the Atmospheric Protection Fund in the state treasury to collect all fines from violations

  • Requires communications infrastructure to undergo annual radio frequency evaluations by January 1, 2026, with signal strength limits of -75 dBm and fines of $500,000 per day for non-compliance

  • Repeals existing Louisiana law (R.S. 37:2201-2208) that previously allowed weather modification through a permit system administered by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry

Legislative Description

Creates the Louisiana Atmospheric Protection Act (EG NO IMPACT See Note)

ENVIRONMENT

Last Action

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 21, nays 72. Failed to pass.

6/2/2025

Committee Referrals

Appropriations5/15/2025
Natural Resources and Environment4/4/2025

Full Bill Text

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