republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-543.md

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Bill	WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to saltwater and charter fishing licenses and fees (EN DECREASE SD EX See Note)	WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to saltwater and charter fishing licenses and fees (EN DECREASE SD EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 543	Louisiana HB 543 (2024)	bill		enacted	Jerome Zeringue	6	19	2	2024-03-01	2024-05-22	openstates	ocd-bill/ae773736-2392-4c98-84ca-b5636077fd3c	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246301	1732280f16dc1bea328a89fe504fc34db2b912e0c83e2785041500098c5b39ff	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 543 (2024) — WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to saltwater and charter fishing licenses and fees (EN DECREASE SD EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB543 Original (filed) — source
2. HB543 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB543 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1135, NATR, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1816, NATR, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. HB543 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#211) — 86–11 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#604) — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-22 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-05-22 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 153. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-14 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-13 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-13 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-09 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-08 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 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 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-04-24 Reported favorably. 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 86, nays 11. 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 (13-0). 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; origin ocd-bill/ae773736-2392-4c98-84ca-b5636077fd3c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).