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| Bill | WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Allows nighttime hunting of outlaw quadrupeds, nutria, and beaver on private property at any time of the year | WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Allows nighttime hunting of outlaw quadrupeds, nutria, and beaver on private property at any time of the year | us/states/la | Louisiana Legislature | 2020 | HB 159 | Louisiana HB 159 (2020) |
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Louisiana HB 159 (2020) — WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Allows nighttime hunting of outlaw quadrupeds, nutria, and beaver on private property at any time of the year
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- HB159 Original (filed) — source
- HB159 Act (committee substitute) — source
- HB159 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- HB159 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
- House Floor Amendment, #2020, McFarland, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
- HB159 Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#674) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
- 2/3 vote (#673) — 31–0 (pass) · upper
- PERMISSION TO CONSIDER AFTER 82ND DAY (#702) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#245) — 100–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Jack McFarland — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Jonathan Goudeau — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
- Scott McKnight — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-06-11 Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- 2020-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 175.
executive-signature - 2020-06-03 Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
executive-receipt - 2020-06-01 Signed by the President of the Senate.
- 2020-06-01 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- 2020-05-31 Received from the Senate without amendments.
- 2020-05-31 Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
passage - 2020-05-31 Notice Senate approved consideration after the 82nd calendar day.
- 2020-05-31 Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays.
- 2020-05-31 Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day.
- 2020-05-31 By a vote of 96 yeas, 0 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 82nd calendar day.
- 2020-05-29 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- 2020-05-28 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- 2020-05-22 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.
referral-committee - 2020-05-21 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- 2020-05-21 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
passage - 2020-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/20.
- 2020-05-15 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- 2020-05-13 Reported favorably (12-0).
- 2020-03-09 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
referral-committee - 2020-02-24 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
- 2020-02-24 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
referral-committee - 2020-02-24 Prefiled.
filing
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3f8aa2a6-81e7-4611-8343-b5ce39aaf63b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).