The original instrument was prepared by Yoursheka Butler. The following digest,
which does not constitute a part of the legislative instrument, was prepared by Hanna
Gettys.
DIGEST
SB 108 Engrossed 2024 Regular Session Seabaugh
Present law provides expropriating authority to the state and its political subdivisions, and certain
corporations, limited liability companies, or other legal entities.
Present law authorizes domestic and foreign corporations, limited liability companies, or other legal
entities created for the purpose of generating, transmitting, and distributing electricity and steam for
power, lighting, heating, or other such uses to expropriate needed property.
Proposed law retains present law and provides that except as to a transmission or generation project
that is approved and included in a multi-state regional transmission organization's or independent
system operator's transmission expansion plan or identified by such regional transmission
organization or independent system operator as necessary for the reliability of the electric system or
necessary for the interconnection of a generator, proposed law is not applicable to, and no
expropriation is authorized, whether for generating plants, buildings, transmission lines, stations or
substations, or associated facilities, unless at the time of the expropriation a majority of the
electricity or steam power to be generated, transmitted, or distributed is intended to be delivered to
end-users located within Louisiana.
Effective August 1, 2024.
(Amends R.S. 19:2(7))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Judiciary A to the original bill
1. Clarifies present law that except as to a transmission or generation project that is
approved and included in a multi-state regional transmission organization's or
independent system operator's transmission expansion plan or identified by such
regional transmission organization or independent system operator as necessary for
the reliability of the electric system or necessary for the interconnection of a
generator.