---
type: "Bill"
title: "FISH/FISHING: Provides for bait shrimp. (8/1/24)"
description: "FISH/FISHING: Provides for bait shrimp. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 273"
citation: "Louisiana SB 273 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Hensgens"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c8e6221-f846-492e-8660-1caa4a121d31"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246530"
source_hash: "c9029510a40e0aee42c0c6821e273c906eb10d28f08848fb84eb36e4103ae060"
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 273 (2024) — FISH/FISHING: Provides for bait shrimp. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB273 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352542)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #1889, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358613)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #1950, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358880)
4. **SB273 Act 61** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375775)
5. **SB273 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354326)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #653, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353809)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #766, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354289)
8. **SB273 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372376)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#846) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#67) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#536) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bob Hensgens — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-15** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 61. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-13** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/9/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-07** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-06** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/2024.
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-03-27** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-13** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** 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/9c8e6221-f846-492e-8660-1caa4a121d31`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).