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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AIRCRAFT/AVIATION: Requires persons being transported offshore by aircraft wear life jackets equipped with personal locator beacons"
+description: "AIRCRAFT/AVIATION: Requires persons being transported offshore by aircraft wear life jackets equipped with personal locator beacons"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 398"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 398 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Troy D. Romero"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-03-30"
+last_action: "2023-06-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84cd9e69-87f3-4d70-978c-7bc026f433ec"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244321"
+source_hash: "4a4c74c341f52dce252f1da28a77fb980dfab36cef6e93d9b004888e284aca1d"
+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 398 (2023) — AIRCRAFT/AVIATION: Requires persons being transported offshore by aircraft wear life jackets equipped with personal locator beacons
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB398 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308530)
+2. **HB398 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332137)
+3. **HB398 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311370)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1038, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311020)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1088, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311253)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1801, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322548)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1931, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323668)
+8. **HB398 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328294)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#32) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#793) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#494) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Troy D. Romero — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry Ivey — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Brett Geymann — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
+- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
+- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
+- Jonathan Goudeau — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott McKnight — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 01/01/2024.
+- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 168. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2023.
+- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-22** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-18** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-04-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2023.
+- **2023-04-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-12** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
+- **2023-03-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-30** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/84cd9e69-87f3-4d70-978c-7bc026f433ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+