--- type: "Bill" title: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Allocates revenue collected from waterfowl licenses to the Duck Stamp Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)" description: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Allocates revenue collected from waterfowl licenses to the Duck Stamp Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2024" identifier: "HB 559" citation: "Louisiana HB 559 (2024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"] version_count: 4 action_count: 19 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2024-03-01" last_action: "2024-05-21" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2351145-2921-4dff-a7e4-d1cdbaa470ec" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246317" source_hash: "66cd988d5c6cd5ac495affde2fd2affc31672eb71094babc4259dbcdcb2e73a7" 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 559 (2024) — WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Allocates revenue collected from waterfowl licenses to the Duck Stamp Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV) ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB559 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351683) 2. **HB559 Act 114** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378135) 3. **HB559 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356575) 4. **HB559 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373231) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#606) — **35–0** (pass) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#139) — **105–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Jerome Zeringue — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-05-21** Effective date: 08/01/2024. - **2024-05-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 114. `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` - **2024-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-04-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2024-03-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 105, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2024-03-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/27/2024. - **2024-03-25** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2024-03-21** Reported favorably (12-0). `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/e2351145-2921-4dff-a7e4-d1cdbaa470ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).