---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Provides relative to expanding the jurisdiction of state park wardens to enforce litter laws statewide"
description: "ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Provides relative to expanding the jurisdiction of state park wardens to enforce litter laws statewide"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 173"
citation: "Louisiana HB 173 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John \"Big John\" Illg , Jr."]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1782e82-b1b0-4185-b8ed-75ed7689ee8c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248083"
source_hash: "fd91ffc1ed2e45d3254027f2e25e3d9b24a7536e327cdacef9c994311cd9b8e9"
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 173 (2025) — ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Provides relative to expanding the jurisdiction of state park wardens to enforce litter laws statewide

## Version chain

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

1. **HB173 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400275)
2. **HB173 Act 67** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422275)
3. **HB173 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406063)
4. **HB173 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408457)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1151, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405443)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1276, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405937)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1402, Illg, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406684)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #619, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406413)
9. **HB173 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418550)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#387) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#23) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 67. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-27** 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`
- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-24** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.
- **2025-04-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Reported with amendments (13-0). `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/f1782e82-b1b0-4185-b8ed-75ed7689ee8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).