---
type: "Bill"
title: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to mallard hunting licenses for hunting preserves"
description: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to mallard hunting licenses for hunting preserves"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 164"
citation: "Louisiana HB 164 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Billings"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f15a938-6a19-4541-9146-f87132d351e7"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248074"
source_hash: "d9b471d6e0bebe7d297bbbc08c0f66a4ded00a70d83b7c3abe49f8f4338eec07"
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 164 (2025) — WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to mallard hunting licenses for hunting preserves

## Version chain

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

1. **HB164 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400265)
2. **HB164 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425059)
3. **HB164 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415095)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2196, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411089)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2946, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415020)
6. **HB164 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420799)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#570) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#481) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beth Billings — primary (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 153. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-29** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
- **2025-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f15a938-6a19-4541-9146-f87132d351e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).