---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Provides a time limitation for citing intentional and simple littering violations"
description: "ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Provides a time limitation for citing intentional and simple littering violations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 297"
citation: "Louisiana HB 297 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Phillip DeVillier"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-28"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6debeff3-9751-45ae-9646-751ae4cbc1ee"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244187"
source_hash: "ea165bfb383d30b01522090dabcd9708f6440dfc69b1c5eb7ecfbcea07d71652"
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 297 (2023) — ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Provides a time limitation for citing intentional and simple littering violations

## Version chain

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

1. **HB297 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307193)
2. **HB297 Act 78** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331595)
3. **HB297 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316283)
4. **HB297 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320631)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2327, DeVillier, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318846)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2530, Marino, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319986)
7. **HB297 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326537)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#508) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#290) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Phillip DeVillier — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 78. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-09** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-09** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/09/2023.
- **2023-05-08** Notice given.
- **2023-05-08** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2023.
- **2023-04-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6debeff3-9751-45ae-9646-751ae4cbc1ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).