---
type: "Bill"
title: "FISHING/CRABS: Prohibits the taking of immature female crabs and provides for enhanced penalties for certain crab fishing violations"
description: "FISHING/CRABS: Prohibits the taking of immature female crabs and provides for enhanced penalties for certain crab fishing violations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 355"
citation: "Louisiana HB 355 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerry \"Truck\" Gisclair"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/629063a0-136d-43be-a5f1-5a55c1a4dec4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236171"
source_hash: "ffc1a9728c46d802072f103af0588caaebffc1a9209f6e303c8e4bd878596cc6"
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 355 (2019) — FISHING/CRABS: Prohibits the taking of immature female crabs and provides for enhanced penalties for certain crab fishing violations

## Version chain

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

1. **HB355 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121355)
2. **HB355 Act 74** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142759)
3. **HB355 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129929)
4. **HB355 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134136)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1906, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129519)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1929, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129643)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2112, Gisclair, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130813)
8. **HB355 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139641)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#288) — **86–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#575) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 74. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-29** 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`
- **2019-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-14** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/629063a0-136d-43be-a5f1-5a55c1a4dec4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).