republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-62.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to seafood safety. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to seafood safety. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 62"
citation: "Louisiana SB 62 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael \"Big Mike\" Fesi"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 32
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-27"
last_action: "2024-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbe11438-ec84-44e1-a837-26f394a33d24"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245868"
source_hash: "ac4a530f9ab1533bb21fc8461aa76020f56e3e25c344e9b94debb94450d6d464"
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 SB 62 (2024) — PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to seafood safety. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB62 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347982)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4941, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376808)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4948, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376849)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #5288, Zeringue, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380165)
5. **SB62 Act 667** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382643)
6. **SB62 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358995)
7. **SB62 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370753)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1279, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358655)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #805, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354626)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1752, Abraham, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363583)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2543, Abraham, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368998)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2690, Fesi, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369932)
13. **SB62 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381016)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#1389) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1675) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#453) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — primary (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Allain — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-18** Effective date 6/18/2024.
- **2024-06-18** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 667. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-06-02** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-31** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-30** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/2024.
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-30** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-28** Reported favorably (17-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-22** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2024-05-21** Reported with amendments (8-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-09** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
- **2024-05-09** Discharged from the Committee on Health and Welfare.
- **2024-05-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-30** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-04-24** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-04-24** Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
- **2024-04-24** Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-04-16** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-04-16** Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
- **2024-04-16** Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-04-08** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-27** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbe11438-ec84-44e1-a837-26f394a33d24`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).