---
type: "Bill"
title: "HUNTING/DEER: Provides for taking of deer by use of pre-charged pneumatic devices"
description: "HUNTING/DEER: Provides for taking of deer by use of pre-charged pneumatic devices"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 422"
citation: "Louisiana HB 422 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Stefanski"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee134c57-d308-49fa-8e5e-d6b9ce3c2c2a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242100"
source_hash: "d8a15b0ec56a089419998269ead3211d064b372767c07e27f8d0a250ba5d3b88"
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 422 (2022) — HUNTING/DEER: Provides for taking of deer by use of pre-charged pneumatic devices

## Version chain

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

1. **HB422 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1254693)
2. **HB422 Act 215** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286787)
3. **HB422 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1269354)
4. **HB422 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1282336)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#765) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#444) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John Stefanski — primary (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 215. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-23** 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`
- **2022-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-12** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-25** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/25/2022.
- **2022-04-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-13** Reported favorably (9-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee134c57-d308-49fa-8e5e-d6b9ce3c2c2a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).