---
type: "Bill"
title: "FISHING: Provides for hand-grabbing of catfish and the taking of bream in minnow traps"
description: "FISHING: Provides for hand-grabbing of catfish and the taking of bream in minnow traps"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 419"
citation: "Louisiana HB 419 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0773c403-c20b-47b4-b2a9-4b1eeb3520f1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242097"
source_hash: "b30d3eacf186651038d7167a654b1e5d42db57d4b4a4ea0158574fe8edf6bcf6"
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 419 (2022) — FISHING: Provides for hand-grabbing of catfish and the taking of bream in minnow traps

## Version chain

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

1. **HB419 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1254690)
2. **HB419 Act 214** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286786)
3. **HB419 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267190)
4. **HB419 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1282283)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#270) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#764) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 214. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-12** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-12** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/12/2022.
- **2022-04-07** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-06** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0773c403-c20b-47b4-b2a9-4b1eeb3520f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).