---
type: "Bill"
title: "FISHING/CRAWFISH: Makes changes to the Louisiana Crawfish Promotion and Research Board"
description: "FISHING/CRAWFISH: Makes changes to the Louisiana Crawfish Promotion and Research Board"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 812"
citation: "Louisiana HB 812 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Troy D. Romero"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/222c5c4f-10e0-47e9-be42-9e8e2c157ead"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246957"
source_hash: "ab6ed74bceee149ee48951f7f643aeee71e901bf672db8ef6f2f8609c1a25701"
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 812 (2024) — FISHING/CRAWFISH: Makes changes to the Louisiana Crawfish Promotion and Research Board

## Version chain

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

1. **HB812 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360118)
2. **HB812 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382312)
3. **HB812 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367035)
4. **HB812 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370028)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3396, Romero, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367409)
6. **HB812 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379164)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#746) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1252) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Troy D. Romero — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 571. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-28** Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-28** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-21** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-30** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/222c5c4f-10e0-47e9-be42-9e8e2c157ead`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).