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IntroducedFeb 27, 2026
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Passed HouseApr 13, 2026
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Passed SenateMay 07, 2026
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Became LawMay 14, 2026
Louisiana House Bill
HUNTING: Establishes a nonresident landowner bear hunting license (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Last Action See all actions
House • May 14, 2026: Effective date: 08/01/2026.
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on HB 631
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Sponsors
Votes
YES: 97
- Phillip R. DeVillier
- Edmonston
- McCormick
- Adams
- Egan
- McMahen
- Amedee
- Firment
- McMakin
- Bacala
- Fisher
- Melerine
- Bagley
- Fontenot
- Mena
- Bamburg
- Freiberg
- Miller
- Bayham
- Gadberry
- Moore
- Beaullieu
- Galle
- Murray
- Berault
- Geymann
- Muscarello
- Billings
- Glorioso
- Orgeron
- Boudreaux
- Green
- Owen
- Bourriaque
- Hebert
- Phelps
- Boyd
- Henry, C.
- Riser
- Boyer
- Henry, D.
- Sawyer
- Brass
- Hilferty
- Schamerhorn
- Braud
- Horton
- Schlegel
- Broussard
- Illg
- Spell
- Butler
- Jackson
- St. Blanc
- Carlson
- Johnson, M.
- Tarver
- Carpenter
- Johnson, T.
- Taylor
- Carrier
- Jordan
- Thomas
- Carter, R.
- Kerner
- Thompson
- Carver
- Knox
- Turner
- Chassion
- LaCombe
- Ventrella
- Chenevert
- LaFleur
- Villio
- Coates
- Landry, J.
- Wilder
- Cox
- Landry, M.
- Wiley
- Crews
- Landry, T.
- Wright
- Deshotel
- Larvadain
- Wyble
- Dewitt
- Lyons
- Young
- Dickerson
- Mack
- Zeringue
- Domangue
- Marcelle
- Echols
- Martinez
NO: 0
Actions
- May 14, 2026 | House
- Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 108.
- Effective date: 08/01/2026.
- May 12, 2026 | House
- Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
- May 12, 2026 | Senate
- Signed by the President of the Senate.
- May 11, 2026 | House
- Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- May 07, 2026 | House
- Received from the Senate without amendments.
- May 07, 2026 | Senate
- Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- Apr 28, 2026 | Senate
- Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- Apr 27, 2026 | Senate
- Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- Apr 22, 2026 | Senate
- Reported favorably.
- Apr 14, 2026 | Senate
- Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.
- Apr 13, 2026 | Senate
- Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Apr 13, 2026 | House
- Called from the calendar.
- Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- Apr 09, 2026 | House
- Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- Notice given.
- Scheduled for floor debate on 04/13/2026.
- Apr 08, 2026 | House
- Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2026.
- Apr 07, 2026 | House
- Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Apr 01, 2026 | House
- Reported favorably (15-0).
- Mar 09, 2026 | House
- Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
- Feb 27, 2026 | House
- Prefiled.
- Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
- First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

