---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Exempts from the Public Records Law information relative to certain activities associated with stocking and breeding of alligators"
description: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Exempts from the Public Records Law information relative to certain activities associated with stocking and breeding of alligators"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 123"
citation: "Louisiana HB 123 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dorothy Sue Hill"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-22"
last_action: "2019-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8538bcff-2c77-49ce-b616-77adba45993e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235792"
source_hash: "59d519337afe6e2a0577b691f828088b6d0954b6f90b7646dbe974b208998f33"
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 123 (2019) — PUBLIC RECORDS: Exempts from the Public Records Law information relative to certain activities associated with stocking and breeding of alligators

## Version chain

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

1. **HB123 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1117160)
2. **HB123 Act 7** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139025)
3. **HB123 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127011)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1147, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124755)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1494, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126983)
6. **HB123 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136011)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#106) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#393) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dorothy Sue Hill — primary (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
- Jim Morris — cosponsor (person)
- John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart J. Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 7. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-08** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-04-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/19.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-24** Reported with amendments (8-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/22/2019.
- **2019-03-22** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8538bcff-2c77-49ce-b616-77adba45993e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).