---
type: "Bill"
title: "FISHING/COMMERCIAL: Provides relative to charter boat fishing guide licensing"
description: "FISHING/COMMERCIAL: Provides relative to charter boat fishing guide licensing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 661"
citation: "Louisiana HB 661 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marcus Bryant"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56e8991c-6ae0-42aa-852e-d2a227d32c5a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246473"
source_hash: "d9d02b287ef94d4d7472a5f550c49a97290dbedccfbf0c83da124abd425ec0f5"
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 661 (2024) — FISHING/COMMERCIAL: Provides relative to charter boat fishing guide licensing

## Version chain

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

1. **HB661 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352336)
2. **HB661 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381921)
3. **HB661 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358402)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1673, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357259)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1830, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358221)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2405, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368525)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2545, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368987)
8. **HB661 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377131)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1174) — **73–11** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#609) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#218) — **82–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Marcus Bryant — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 442. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, roll called, yeas 73, nays 11. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/21/2024.
- **2024-05-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-08** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 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** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-24** Reported with amendments. `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 82, nays 17. 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 (15-0). `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/56e8991c-6ae0-42aa-852e-d2a227d32c5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).