---
type: "Bill"
title: "FISHING/COMMERCIAL: Includes charter fishing guides in the certification program as earning more than half of their income from charter fishing guide activities (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "FISHING/COMMERCIAL: Includes charter fishing guides in the certification program as earning more than half of their income from charter fishing guide activities (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 425"
citation: "Louisiana HB 425 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/225ff5e7-40c9-41ae-a1c5-69eef0e813c7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233851"
source_hash: "5eae031370fd5c82afd2cb5772dceebcb26ed0bb7a6c2689d5df49087459c9b2"
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 425 (2018) — FISHING/COMMERCIAL: Includes charter fishing guides in the certification program as earning more than half of their income from charter fishing guide activities (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB425 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1071666)
2. **HB425 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097957)
3. **HB425 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080250)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1664, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1078555)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1910, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080066)
6. **HB425 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094612)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#764) — **31–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#269) — **92–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 05/15/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 165. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-07** Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-05-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-05-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-30** 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.
- **2018-04-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/05/18.
- **2018-03-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-28** Reported with amendments (14-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/225ff5e7-40c9-41ae-a1c5-69eef0e813c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).