---
type: "Bill"
title: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides for deer sex identification requirements"
description: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides for deer sex identification requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 219"
citation: "Louisiana HB 219 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Dewith Carrier"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-01"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac40be02-618d-44d6-8344-25af59ae302f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248146"
source_hash: "612f67e478e15fdce251966616e1b0795719e92a28928740a6265366cc90da1e"
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 219 (2025) — WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides for deer sex identification requirements

## Version chain

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

1. **HB219 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400868)
2. **HB219 Act 73** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422282)
3. **HB219 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405910)
4. **HB219 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418555)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#391) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#26) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- R. Dewith Carrier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 73. `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 37 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, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Reported favorably (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`
- **2025-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac40be02-618d-44d6-8344-25af59ae302f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).