---
type: "Bill"
title: "ANIMALS/ALLIGATORS: Requires a license for taking alligators and eliminates the additional license for an assistant to an alligator hunter"
description: "ANIMALS/ALLIGATORS: Requires a license for taking alligators and eliminates the additional license for an assistant to an alligator hunter"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 269"
citation: "Louisiana HB 269 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9473ef4-25ee-4a3a-9f33-c09310b619cc"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236031"
source_hash: "95399db2584b9464369ef4052d02d6ce8cf62bfe11697e5c1d3d17252b6969ab"
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 269 (2019) — ANIMALS/ALLIGATORS: Requires a license for taking alligators and eliminates the additional license for an assistant to an alligator hunter

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB269 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119914)
2. **HB269 Act 305** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144235)
3. **HB269 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129699)
4. **HB269 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141417)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#828) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#281) — **87–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 305. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
- **2019-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-30** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-14** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/19.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9473ef4-25ee-4a3a-9f33-c09310b619cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).