GREEN SHEET REDIGEST
HB 1060 2022 Regular Session Coussan
FISHING/LICENSES: Provides relative to freshwater charter boat fishing guide
licenses.
DIGEST
Present law requires residents and nonresidents to obtain a freshwater charter boat fishing
guide license in order to represent himself to be a charter boat fishing guide. Further requires
both freshwater and saltwater charter guides possess a valid captain's license issued by the
U.S. Coast Guard.
Proposed law removes the requirement that a freshwater charter boat fishing guide operating
on a waterbody not influenced by the tide possess a valid captain's license issued by the U.S.
Coast Guard in order to conduct guided fishing tours in freshwater. Further provides that
issuance of a license does not relieve the licensee of any other requirement of law,
specifically the holding of a valid United States Coast Guard captain's license. Additionally,
provides an exception to a licensure violation for a person who represents himself as a
charter boat fishing guide if the person possessed a valid license during the previous 30 days
but has not renewed.
(Amends R.S. 56:302.9(A)(1) and (3))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Natural Resources to the
engrossed bill
1. Adds requirement that freshwater charter boat guides on a waterbody
influenced by tide hold a Coast Guard Captain's license.
2. Specifies that issuance of a charter boat fishing guide license does not relieve
licensee of any other requirement of law.
3. Makes technical changes.
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Prepared by Jacob Wilson.