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+type: "Bill"
+title: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Authorizes the use of dogs to retrieve mortally wounded deer"
+description: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Authorizes the use of dogs to retrieve mortally wounded deer"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 802"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 802 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jason Dewitt"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-27"
+last_action: "2024-05-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a1c71e8-0fac-4e0a-9edc-3a3673e9c567"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246943"
+source_hash: "43b24fa534d09ce01c6e79be8f565241243b9effd8c59278fa3d595144e70aa5"
+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 802 (2024) — WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Authorizes the use of dogs to retrieve mortally wounded deer
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB802 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359270)
+2. **HB802 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379636)
+3. **HB802 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361942)
+4. **HB802 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364162)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2122, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360125)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2214, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361271)
+7. **House Committee Amendment, #2286, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361853)
+8. **House Floor Amendment, #2456, Dewitt, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362801)
+9. **HB802 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375883)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#932) — **36–1** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#365) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jason Dewitt — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 272. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-16** 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`
+- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-09** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2024.
+- **2024-04-04** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-03** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-02** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-27** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a1c71e8-0fac-4e0a-9edc-3a3673e9c567`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+