---
type: "Bill"
title: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Includes in the definition of \"bona fide resident\" honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces (EN DECREASE SD RV See Note)"
description: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Includes in the definition of \"bona fide resident\" honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces (EN DECREASE SD RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 86"
citation: "Louisiana HB 86 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Terry Brown"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-19"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58a9eec5-5d82-496c-b867-93c290badaa8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235726"
source_hash: "0e58e80bf4bee849c166c5c4b727fb72db951e53b5e356453bdbfe1d0bfe5a55"
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 86 (2019) — WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Includes in the definition of "bona fide resident" honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces (EN DECREASE SD RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB86 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1116148)
2. **HB86 Act 293** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144223)
3. **HB86 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129710)
4. **HB86 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141389)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#262) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#822) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Terry Brown — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (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. 293. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
- **2019-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-30** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-13** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/19.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/22/2019.
- **2019-03-19** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58a9eec5-5d82-496c-b867-93c290badaa8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).