WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides relative to hunting and fishing licenses for nonresident veterans, retired military personnel, and Purple Heart recipients
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2022
Committee Review
May 2022
House Passage
Apr 2022
Senate Passage
May 2022
Signed into Law
May 2022
Introduced Mar 4, 2022
Signed May 31, 2022
Floor votes · Senate May 23, 2022 · House Apr 26, 2022
How they voted
33–0
Passed
Total votes 33
May 23, 2022
D
Democratic11
100% Yea
R
Republican22
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
5
Committee
6
Amendments
1
May 31, 2022
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 229.
lower
May 23, 2022
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
May 23, 2022
Upper · Passed
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.
upper
May 15, 2022
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 12, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 28, 2022
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.
upper
Apr 26, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 13, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (11-0).
lower
Mar 14, 2022
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
lower
Mar 4, 2022
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
lower
1 primary · 22 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Chuck Owen
RRepublican
Co
BP
Barrow Peacock
RRepublican
Co
BM
Barry Milligan
RRepublican
Co
Beth Mizell
RRepublican
Co
Franklin Foil
RRepublican
Co
GS
Gary Smith Jr.
DDemocratic
Co
Gerald Boudreaux
DDemocratic
Co
Glen Womack
RRepublican
Co
JR
J. Rogers Pope
RRepublican
Co
Jay Luneau
DDemocratic
Co
Jay Morris
RRepublican
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