republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-503.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to hull identification numbers issued by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries	WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to hull identification numbers issued by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2023	HB 503	Louisiana HB 503 (2023)	bill		enacted	Kenny Cox	4	22	2	2023-03-31	2023-06-12	openstates	ocd-bill/df30492b-3d06-4bb5-bcc5-89e3b8903aa5	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244470	87c815645a4ee1c317f6a854e33346b43b8a8312c7ef40ef7d1542f3b5ab5905	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 503 (2023) — WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to hull identification numbers issued by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

Version chain

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

1. HB503 Original (filed) — source
2. HB503 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB503 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB503 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#286) — 75–22 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#780) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kenny Cox — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-12 Effective date: 08/01/2023.
• 2023-06-12 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 356. became-law, executive-signature
• 2023-06-07 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2023-06-06 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2023-06-05 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2023-06-05 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2023-06-04 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
• 2023-05-29 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2023-05-26 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2023-05-25 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-11 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-05-10 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2023-05-09 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 75, nays 22. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2023-05-09 Called from the calendar.
• 2023-05-09 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2023-05-04 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/09/2023.
• 2023-04-27 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2023-04-26 Reported favorably (15-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-10 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. referral-committee
• 2023-04-03 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
• 2023-03-31 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. referral-committee
• 2023-03-31 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/df30492b-3d06-4bb5-bcc5-89e3b8903aa5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).