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HB327 • 2026

ENERGY: Declares that carbon dioxide sequestration is illegal without a property owner's consent (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)

ENERGY: Declares that carbon dioxide sequestration is illegal without a property owner's consent (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)

Energy
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Danny McCormick
Last action
2026-03-09
Official status
Pending House Natural Resources
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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ENERGY: Declares that carbon dioxide sequestration is illegal without a property owner's consent (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)

ENERGY: Declares that carbon dioxide sequestration is illegal without a property owner's consent (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)

What This Bill Does

  • ENERGY: Declares that carbon dioxide sequestration is illegal without a property owner's consent (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-09 H

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

  2. 2026-02-27 H

    First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

  3. 2026-02-24 H

    Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.

  4. 2026-02-24 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

ENERGY: Declares that carbon dioxide sequestration is illegal without a property owner's consent (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)

Current Bill Text

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HLS 26RS-282 ORIGINAL
2026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 327
BY REPRESENTATIVES MCCORMICK, OWEN, AND SCHAMERHORN
ENERGY: Declares that carbon dioxide sequestration is illegal without a property owner's
consent
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 30:2.2, relative to the legality of carbon dioxide sequestration; to make carbon
3 dioxide sequestration illegal beneath private property without the property owner's
4 consent; to provide an exception for property owners that cannot be located; and to
5 provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 30:2.2 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
8 §2.2. Illegal acts; carbon dioxide sequestration
9 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, carbon dioxide
10 sequestration beneath private property without the property owner's consent is
11 illegal. However, this Section shall not apply if, after a reasonable search and good
12 faith effort by the storage facility owner or operator, the property owner cannot be
13 located.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 327 Original 2026 Regular Session McCormick
Abstract: Makes carbon dioxide sequestration illegal beneath private property without the
property owner's consent, unless the property owner cannot be located.
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.
HLS 26RS-282 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 327
Proposed law provides that carbon dioxide sequestration beneath private property without
consent is illegal.
Proposed law provides an exception for instances where a property owner cannot be located
after a reasonable search and good fath effort to find them by the storage facility owner or
operator.
(Adds R.S. 30:2.2)
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.