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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CRIME/MISDEMEANOR: Establishes penalties associated with minors swimming in certain waterways without personal flotation devices (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "CRIME/MISDEMEANOR: Establishes penalties associated with minors swimming in certain waterways without personal flotation devices (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 207"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 207 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rodney Schamerhorn"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-03-24"
+last_action: "2023-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47445d05-e691-4e3e-869c-c66c4fbea6b4"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244069"
+source_hash: "beea59c228cdfed42e74e143e1d082ffedfcfe704d7e88a2e1ecc13e28c4bc57"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 207 (2023) — CRIME/MISDEMEANOR: Establishes penalties associated with minors swimming in certain waterways without personal flotation devices (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB207 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305293)
+2. **HB207 Act 300** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332453)
+3. **HB207 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322997)
+4. **HB207 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325190)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2283, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318574)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #3086, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322981)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #3142, Schamerhorn, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323412)
+8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2444, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327087)
+9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2704, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328789)
+10. **HB207 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330984)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#596) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#805) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1061) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — primary (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 300. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 102, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
+- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-31** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-30** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2023.
+- **2023-05-18** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-17** Reported with amendments (8-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
+- **2023-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47445d05-e691-4e3e-869c-c66c4fbea6b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+