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HB589 • 2026

ENERGY/PIPELINES: Requires a five hundred foot setback for carbon dioxide pipelines

ENERGY/PIPELINES: Requires a five hundred foot setback for carbon dioxide pipelines

Energy
Passed Legislature

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

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ENERGY/PIPELINES: Requires a five hundred foot setback for carbon dioxide pipelines

ENERGY/PIPELINES: Requires a five hundred foot setback for carbon dioxide pipelines

What This Bill Does

  • ENERGY/PIPELINES: Requires a five hundred foot setback for carbon dioxide pipelines

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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. 2026-02-26 H

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

  4. 2026-02-26 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

ENERGY/PIPELINES: Requires a five hundred foot setback for carbon dioxide pipelines

Current Bill Text

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HLS 26RS-515 ORIGINAL
2026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 589
BY REPRESENTATIVE FARNUM
ENERGY/PIPELINES: Requires a five hundred foot setback for carbon dioxide pipelines
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 30:1113, relative to siting requirements; to add a setback for
3 construction of carbon dioxide transport pipelines; and to provide for related matters.
4 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
5 Section 1. R.S. 30:1113 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
6 §1113. Siting requirements
7 A. No Class VI injection wellhead shall be located within five hundred feet
8 of the following:
9 (1) Inhabited dwellings not owned by the storage operator or any owner in
10 interest bound by a contract with the storage operator that allows for location of a
11 Class VI injection well within five hundred feet of an inhabited dwelling.
12 (2) Schools.
13 (3) Healthcare facilities.
14 B. No pipeline for transport of carbon dioxide shall be constructed within
15 five hundred feet of the following:
16 (1) Inhabited dwellings.
17 (2) Schools.
18 (3) Healthcare facilities.
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.
HLS 26RS-515 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 589
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 589 Original 2026 Regular Session Farnum
Abstract: Adds a five hundred foot setback for construction of carbon dioxide transport
pipelines in certain areas.
Present law prohibits Class VI injection wellheads from being located within 500 ft. of
inhabited dwellings, schools, and healthcare facilities.
Proposed law retains present law and adds a prohibition for construction of pipelines for
transport of carbon dioxide within 500 ft. of inhabited dwellings, schools, and healthcare
facilities.
(Amends R.S. 30:1113)
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.