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LouisianaHB 7212026 Regular SessionHouse

SEAFOOD: Provides relative to shrimp harvesting

Sponsored By: Timothy P. Kerner (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Natural ResourcesNatural Resources and Environment

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Longer shrimping hours for Louisiana harvesters

Licensed commercial shrimp harvesters can start trawling at 5:30 a.m. during open shrimp seasons. This exception applies in Vermilion Bay, East Cote Blanche Bay, and West Cote Blanche Bay. The law also allows night shrimping in Southwest Pass at Marsh Island, south of the law's boundary line.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Timothy P. Kerner

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 139 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/13/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

House vote • 3/31/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 103 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 314.

    5/22/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/22/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/19/2026House

  4. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/18/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/18/2026Senate

  6. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/13/2026Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/13/2026House

  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/5/2026Senate

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/4/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/29/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

    4/1/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    3/31/2026House

  13. Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    3/31/2026Senate

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/31/2026.

    3/30/2026House

  15. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    3/26/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (15-0-1).

    3/25/2026House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.

    3/9/2026House

  18. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

  19. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.

    2/27/2026House

  20. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

    2/27/2026House

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