---
type: "Bill"
title: "FISH/FISHING: Provides relative to retaining and removing invasive species of fish."
description: "FISH/FISHING: Provides relative to retaining and removing invasive species of fish."
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 270"
citation: "Louisiana SB 270 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Glen Womack"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/014bb82d-0290-45cc-88fd-2a7351723c13"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242316"
source_hash: "7d2b94e8dd376706c0a3bcf039467ce2095d2f180bff095d46b728e7a000de7b"
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 SB 270 (2022) — FISH/FISHING: Provides relative to retaining and removing invasive species of fish.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB270 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1256517)
2. **SB270 Act 11** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1279851)
3. **SB270 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261869)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #888, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261728)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #949, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261811)
6. **SB270 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277741)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#104) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#741) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Glen Womack — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-13** Effective date 5/13/2022.
- **2022-05-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 11. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-12** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-11** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-11** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-10** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2022-05-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2022.
- **2022-04-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-04-19** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-03-29** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-03-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-23** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/014bb82d-0290-45cc-88fd-2a7351723c13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).