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type: "Bill"
title: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to hunting and fishing licenses for nonresident veterans, retired military personnel, and Purple Heart recipients"
description: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to hunting and fishing licenses for nonresident veterans, retired military personnel, and Purple Heart recipients"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 718"
citation: "Louisiana HB 718 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-04"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7a8e4c1-08b3-4126-b7b7-b175751df6a3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242557"
source_hash: "fe6a964c9560cd807496c61be536a210485a0a9621e59b4492824cfc4ca20a24"
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 718 (2022) — WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to hunting and fishing licenses for nonresident veterans, retired military personnel, and Purple Heart recipients
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB718 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1257739)
2. **HB718 Act 229** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286803)
3. **HB718 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1269360)
4. **HB718 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1273380)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1931, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1269892)
6. **HB718 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1282469)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#777) — **380** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#778) — **250** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#456) — **1010** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Charles Owen — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-05-31** Effective date: See Act.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 229. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-12** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-26** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/2022.
- **2022-04-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-13** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b7a8e4c1-08b3-4126-b7b7-b175751df6a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).