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---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries"
description: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 143"
citation: "Louisiana HB 143 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean-Paul Coussan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-24"
last_action: "2020-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2d7537a1-4d5d-485a-9603-f0d71d96236a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237619"
source_hash: "7ed4cac4c75f519129649884097aac0197405bb5c79ae84deaa3dc944ea45496"
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 143 (2020) — SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB143 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1158006)
2. **HB143 Act 22** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180220)
3. **HB143 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169827)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #2044, Miguez, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173001)
5. **HB143 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176265)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#359) — **370** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#148) — **930** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jean-Paul Coussan — primary (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-06-04** Effective date: 06/30/20.
- **2020-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 22. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-21** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2d7537a1-4d5d-485a-9603-f0d71d96236a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).