---
type: "Bill"
title: "ANIMALS/LIVESTOCK AT LG: Provides for fees for impounded livestock found roaming at large"
description: "ANIMALS/LIVESTOCK AT LG: Provides for fees for impounded livestock found roaming at large"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 582"
citation: "Louisiana HB 582 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4b4dc2f-6f16-4212-91ed-02c64ebd7bd9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236450"
source_hash: "6d6660cb7565077c8d5d1f59cc2cc125314cccabd437247a9574052437284640"
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 582 (2019) — ANIMALS/LIVESTOCK AT LG: Provides for fees for impounded livestock found roaming at large

## Version chain

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

1. **HB582 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122389)
2. **HB582 Act 250** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144116)
3. **HB582 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130801)
4. **HB582 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135037)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2029, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130307)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2226, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131322)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2280, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131720)
8. **HB582 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142116)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#880) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#368) — **87–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 250. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-28** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 6. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/16/19.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-02** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4b4dc2f-6f16-4212-91ed-02c64ebd7bd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).