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LouisianaHB 8862026 Regular SessionHouse

FISHING/COMMERCIAL: Provides for reporting and data collection for commercial menhaden fishing

Sponsored By: Joseph A. Orgeron (Republican)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Menhaden reports to lawmakers lose confidentiality

Louisiana commercial menhaden harvest reports received by legislative committees under R.S. 56:325.5(B) are no longer confidential. This overrides state confidentiality protections and allows public access under applicable disclosure rules, reducing privacy for those submitting reports. The law also calls for monthly reporting rules, but the supplied text does not spell out their requirements. It repeals R.S. 56:325.5(A)(1)(c), but that clause's former requirements and the repeal's practical effects are not clear from this text.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Joseph A. Orgeron

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 245 • No: 2

House vote • 5/20/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 94 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/13/2026

Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

House vote • 4/14/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 99 • No: 2

House vote • 4/8/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 15 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 444.

    5/29/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/29/2026House

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

    5/25/2026House

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/22/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/21/2026Senate

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    5/20/2026House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/20/2026.

    5/19/2026House

  8. Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/13/2026Senate

  9. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/13/2026House

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

    5/5/2026Senate

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

    5/4/2026Senate

  12. Reported favorably.

    4/29/2026Senate

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

    4/15/2026Senate

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/14/2026House

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

    4/14/2026Senate

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/14/2026.

    4/13/2026House

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

    4/9/2026House

  18. Reported favorably (15-0).

    4/8/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  20. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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