---
type: "Bill"
title: "BOATS/SHIPS/VESSELS: Authorizes the use of personal watercraft between sunset and sunrise"
description: "BOATS/SHIPS/VESSELS: Authorizes the use of personal watercraft between sunset and sunrise"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 59"
citation: "Louisiana HB 59 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mary DuBuisson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-03"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f221dc90-df4a-49f2-b5ff-f97cab626d81"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243891"
source_hash: "37287db2b35395af1a668b7367fc6a3a3348c6b0d6e09783ce4c9e4a32c1bfad"
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 59 (2023) — BOATS/SHIPS/VESSELS: Authorizes the use of personal watercraft between sunset and sunrise

## Version chain

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

1. **HB59 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1301593)
2. **HB59 Act 136** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332104)
3. **HB59 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316287)
4. **HB59 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327874)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#560) — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#243) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mary DuBuisson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 136. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2023.
- **2023-04-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/3/2023.
- **2023-03-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f221dc90-df4a-49f2-b5ff-f97cab626d81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).