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+type: "Bill"
+title: "BOATS/SHIPS/VESSELS: Authorizes the use of personal watercraft between sunset and sunrise"
+description: "BOATS/SHIPS/VESSELS: Authorizes the use of personal watercraft between sunset and sunrise"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 59"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 59 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mary DuBuisson"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-03"
+last_action: "2023-06-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f221dc90-df4a-49f2-b5ff-f97cab626d81"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243891"
+source_hash: "37287db2b35395af1a668b7367fc6a3a3348c6b0d6e09783ce4c9e4a32c1bfad"
+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 59 (2023) — BOATS/SHIPS/VESSELS: Authorizes the use of personal watercraft between sunset and sunrise
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB59 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1301593)
+2. **HB59 Act 136** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332104)
+3. **HB59 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316287)
+4. **HB59 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327874)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#560) — **36–1** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#243) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mary DuBuisson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 136. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-05-30** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2023.
+- **2023-04-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-26** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/3/2023.
+- **2023-03-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-03** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f221dc90-df4a-49f2-b5ff-f97cab626d81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+