---
type: "Bill"
title: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Prohibits the importation of live cervid"
description: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Prohibits the importation of live cervid"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 197"
citation: "Louisiana HB 197 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gene Reynolds"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-27"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a1ffe65-db28-47a2-b7ab-4ec050a5ad78"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233442"
source_hash: "c54c0262faa54e83feeb1b22d0885d34795cafc785d3dfd907e892b9499c9db9"
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 197 (2018) — WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Prohibits the importation of live cervid

## Version chain

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

1. **HB197 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1068623)
2. **HB197 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096941)
3. **HB197 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080746)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1712, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1078796)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1992, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080585)
6. **HB197 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1090714)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#308) — **89–1** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#575) — **29–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gene Reynolds — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 67. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-04-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-04-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-04-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-23** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/06/18.
- **2018-04-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-29** Reported with amendments (14-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a1ffe65-db28-47a2-b7ab-4ec050a5ad78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).