---
type: "Bill"
title: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to hull identification numbers issued by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries"
description: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to hull identification numbers issued by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 503"
citation: "Louisiana HB 503 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kenny Cox"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df30492b-3d06-4bb5-bcc5-89e3b8903aa5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244470"
source_hash: "87c815645a4ee1c317f6a854e33346b43b8a8312c7ef40ef7d1542f3b5ab5905"
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 503 (2023) — WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to hull identification numbers issued by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

## Version chain

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

1. **HB503 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309462)
2. **HB503 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332513)
3. **HB503 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316126)
4. **HB503 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329675)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#286) — **75–22** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#780) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kenny Cox — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 356. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `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, roll called on final passage, yeas 75, nays 22. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-09** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-09** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/09/2023.
- **2023-04-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** Reported favorably (15-0). `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.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df30492b-3d06-4bb5-bcc5-89e3b8903aa5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).