republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-802.md

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Bill	WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Authorizes the use of dogs to retrieve mortally wounded deer	WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Authorizes the use of dogs to retrieve mortally wounded deer	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 802	Louisiana HB 802 (2024)	bill		enacted	Jason Dewitt	9	18	2	2024-03-27	2024-05-24	openstates	ocd-bill/0a1c71e8-0fac-4e0a-9edc-3a3673e9c567	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246943	43b24fa534d09ce01c6e79be8f565241243b9effd8c59278fa3d595144e70aa5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 802 (2024) — WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Authorizes the use of dogs to retrieve mortally wounded deer

Version chain

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

1. HB802 Original (filed) — source
2. HB802 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB802 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB802 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2122, NATR, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2214, NATR, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #2286, NATR, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #2456, Dewitt, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. HB802 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#932) — 36–1 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#365) — 103–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jason Dewitt — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-24 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-05-24 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 272. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-22 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-20 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-20 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-20 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-16 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-07 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-06 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-01 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-16 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-15 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-09 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-08 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2024.
• 2024-04-04 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-03 Reported with amendments (12-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-02 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. referral-committee
• 2024-03-27 Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0a1c71e8-0fac-4e0a-9edc-3a3673e9c567. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).