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+type: "Bill"
+title: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Allocates revenue collected from waterfowl licenses to the Duck Stamp Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)"
+description: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Allocates revenue collected from waterfowl licenses to the Duck Stamp Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 559"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 559 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-05-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2351145-2921-4dff-a7e4-d1cdbaa470ec"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246317"
+source_hash: "66cd988d5c6cd5ac495affde2fd2affc31672eb71094babc4259dbcdcb2e73a7"
+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 559 (2024) — WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Allocates revenue collected from waterfowl licenses to the Duck Stamp Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB559 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351683)
+2. **HB559 Act 114** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378135)
+3. **HB559 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356575)
+4. **HB559 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373231)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#606) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#139) — **105–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-21** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-05-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 114. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-14** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-13** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-13** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-09** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-03-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 105, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-03-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/27/2024.
+- **2024-03-25** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-21** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2351145-2921-4dff-a7e4-d1cdbaa470ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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