---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME/MISDEMEANOR: Establishes penalties associated with minors swimming in certain waterways without personal flotation devices (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "CRIME/MISDEMEANOR: Establishes penalties associated with minors swimming in certain waterways without personal flotation devices (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 207"
citation: "Louisiana HB 207 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodney Schamerhorn"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-24"
last_action: "2023-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47445d05-e691-4e3e-869c-c66c4fbea6b4"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244069"
source_hash: "beea59c228cdfed42e74e143e1d082ffedfcfe704d7e88a2e1ecc13e28c4bc57"
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 207 (2023) — CRIME/MISDEMEANOR: Establishes penalties associated with minors swimming in certain waterways without personal flotation devices (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB207 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305293)
2. **HB207 Act 300** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332453)
3. **HB207 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322997)
4. **HB207 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325190)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2283, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318574)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3086, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322981)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3142, Schamerhorn, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323412)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2444, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327087)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2704, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328789)
10. **HB207 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330984)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#596) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#805) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1061) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rodney Schamerhorn — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 300. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 102, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-31** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-30** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2023.
- **2023-05-18** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Reported with amendments (8-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
- **2023-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47445d05-e691-4e3e-869c-c66c4fbea6b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).