HB 538 Louisiana House · 2025 Regular Session

AMUSEMENTS/SPORTS: Provides with respect to the State Boxing and Wrestling Commission (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)

HB 538 updates licensing fees for the State Boxing and Wrestling Commission and sets salaries for its members. The bill establishes new fee amounts for event promoters (e.g., wrestling promoters $250-$500, boxing promoters $500-$250), referees ($25), and other participants like fighters and managers ($25-$35 per license). It also sets annual salaries for commission leadership (chairman: $10,000; vice chairman: $6,400) and provides per diem rates for travel ($80/day) and meetings ($150/day max). These changes directly affect boxing and wrestling event operators, fighters, and officials who must pay these fees or receive these compensations.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2025
Committee Review
Jun 2025
House Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
Jun 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Apr 4, 2025 Signed Jun 11, 2025
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What changed between versions

HB538 Original HB538 Act 290 · 3 edits
MINOR
HB 538 was converted from a prefiled bill into Act 290, finalizing its text for the 2025 Regular Session. The most significant substantive change involves the composition of the State Boxing and Wrestling Athletic Commission, which now requires five members to be appointed from the state at large rather than from specific Public Service Commission districts. Additionally, the bill updates license fees and clarifies salary structures for commission members.
Scope change
The bill's scope regarding commission membership eligibility was narrowed by removing the requirement that members be selected from specific Public Service Commission districts, shifting the selection to the state at large.
ELIGIBILITY

The method for selecting Athletic Commission members changed; the requirement for members to be chosen from specific Public Service Commission districts was removed, and the number of members from the state at large was adjusted.

FISCAL

License fees for various roles (promoters, referees, managers, announcers, and contestants) were updated with new dollar amounts, while the bond requirement for applicants remained at five thousand dollars.

Commission member salaries were restructured with specific dollar amounts assigned to the chairman, vice chairman, secretary, and other members, replacing the previous system where members fixed their own salaries.

Floor votes · Senate Jun 8, 2025 · House May 14, 2025

How they voted

370
Passed
Total votes 37
Jun 8, 2025
D Democratic11
11 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican26
26 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
18
Key actions
4
Committee
4
Jun 8, 2025
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
Jun 4, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 14, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 2. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (15-0).
lower
Apr 14, 2025
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.
lower
Apr 4, 2025
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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Legislator
Party
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John Wyble
RRepublican
LA
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