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LouisianaSB 1112026 Regular SessionSenate

FISH/FISHING: Provides for black bass and crappie bag and size limits. (8/1/26)

Sponsored By: Caleb Kleinpeter (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Natural Resources and EnvironmentNatural Resources

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

New catch limits for Louisiana anglers

Beginning August 1, 2026, the law sets recreational fishing limits in a defined Louisiana area. Each person can take up to 5 black bass daily, each at least 12 inches in total length. Each person can take up to 25 crappie daily, each at least 8 inches in total length. Both limits include hybrids; crappie are also called white perch or sac-a-lait. The area lies south of US 190 from the West Atchafalaya Basin Protection Levee to LA 1, due north of Port Allen; east of that levee from US 190 to US 90; north of US 90 from the levee to LA 20; north and west of LA 20 from US 90 to LA 1 in Thibodaux; and south and west of LA 1 from LA 20 to US 190. The section heading also lists a ban on possessing finfish fillets, but the excerpt provides no further details.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Caleb Kleinpeter

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 138 • No: 0

House vote • 5/19/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 93 • No: 0

House vote • 5/12/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Senate vote • 3/25/2026

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 460.

    5/29/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/01/2026.

    5/29/2026Senate

  3. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/25/2026House

  4. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.

    5/21/2026Senate

  5. Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/20/2026Senate

  6. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/19/2026House

  7. Received from the House without amendments.

    5/19/2026Senate

  8. Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/18/2026House

  9. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2026.

    5/18/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/13/2026House

  11. Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/12/2026House

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

    3/31/2026House

  13. Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.

    3/30/2026House

  14. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    3/25/2026Senate

  15. Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    3/23/2026Senate

  16. Reported favorably.

    3/18/2026Senate

  17. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

    3/9/2026Senate

  18. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

    2/23/2026Senate

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