Senate Committee on Natural Resources
May 1, 2024
1:00 p.m.
Room A-B

Adjourned
 




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CALL TO ORDER

ROLL CALL

APPROVAL OF MINUTES
 Approve minutes dated April 24, 2024 from the 2024 Regular Session

LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
 HCR25BOURRIAQUECOASTAL RESOURCES - Approves the annual state integrated coastal protection plan for Fiscal Year 2025, as adopted by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board
 HCR29ZERINGUECOASTAL RESOURCES - Reaffirms support for the annual Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Mapping Cruise conducted by Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and memorializes Congress to provide continued funding
 HB409FIRMENTWILDLIFE & FISHERIES - Provides relative to harassment of hunters, trappers, and fishermen on lands and waters managed by the state
 HB458FONTENOTWILDLIFE & FISHERIES - Provides relative to the regulation window tinting for patrol vehicles owned by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
 HB492GEYMANNPROPERTY/EXPROPRIATION - Provides relative to eminent domain
 HB802DEWITTWILDLIFE & FISHERIES - Authorizes the use of dogs to retrieve mortally wounded deer
 HB937GEYMANNENERGY/CONSERVATION - Provides relative to landowner liability for carbon dioxide sequestration
 HB966GEYMANNENERGY/CONSERVATION - Authorizes unitization for carbon dioxide sequestration

CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
 Consider and approve Louisiana Office of State Lands Site Code 7-08-002 – LDH site, Bossier City, Bossier Parish: 37.921 acre tract of vacant land (formerly part of Northwest Support & Services Center)
 Consider and approve Louisiana Office of State Lands Site Code 6-58-008 – LDH site, Leesville, Vernon Parish: 9.7 acre tract of land with a 60,575 square foot special purpose building (formerly Leesville Residential & Employment Services)
 Consider and approve Louisiana Office of State Lands Site Code 7-60-017 – LDWF site, Doyline, Webster Parish: 2.5 acre tract of land with a 2,940 square foot building (formerly Bistineau Fisheries Laboratory)

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