---
type: "Bill"
title: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to saltwater and charter fishing licenses and fees (EN DECREASE SD EX See Note)"
description: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to saltwater and charter fishing licenses and fees (EN DECREASE SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 543"
citation: "Louisiana HB 543 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae773736-2392-4c98-84ca-b5636077fd3c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246301"
source_hash: "1732280f16dc1bea328a89fe504fc34db2b912e0c83e2785041500098c5b39ff"
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 543 (2024) — WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to saltwater and charter fishing licenses and fees (EN DECREASE SD EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB543 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351529)
2. **HB543 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379472)
3. **HB543 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358385)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1135, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354112)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1816, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358151)
6. **HB543 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373207)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#211) — **86–11** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#604) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-22** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 153. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-14** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-13** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-09** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 11. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/03/2024.
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-26** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae773736-2392-4c98-84ca-b5636077fd3c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).