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2022 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 338
BY REPRESENTATIVE COUSSAN
FISHING/LICENSES: Provides relative to freshwater charter boat fishing guide licenses
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 56:302.9(C)(2) and to repeal R.S. 56:302.9(C)(3), relative to
3 freshwater charter boat fishing licenses; to remove freshwater charter boat fishing
4 guide licenses; and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 56:302.9(C)(2) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง302.9. Charter boat fishing guide license; nonresident fee
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9 C.
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11 (2) The annual fee for a resident freshwater charter boat fishing guide license
12 is one hundred fifty dollars.
13 (3)(2)(a) The annual fee for a nonresident saltwater charter boat fishing
14 guide license is one thousand five hundred dollars for operating a vessel that carries
15 not more than six passengers and two thousand dollars for operating a vessel that
16 carries more than six passengers.
17 (b) The annual fee for a nonresident freshwater charter boat fishing guide
18 license is five hundred dollars.
19 (c)(b) There shall be an additional five hundred dollar fee for each
20 nonresident charter boat fishing guide license issued under the provisions of
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HB NO. 338
1 Subparagraphs Subparagraph (a) and (b) of this Paragraph which shall be deposited
2 into the Conservation Fund, as provided in R.S. 56:10(B)(1)(f). Such funds shall be
3 used by the department for promotion of the charter boat industry, protection of the
4 fishery, and to provide for administrative costs of the fund. Such fees are to be
5 expended for such purposes through the Louisiana Charter Boat Association.
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7 Section 2. R.S. 56:302.9(C)(3) is hereby repealed in its entirety.
DIGEST
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part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 338 Original 2022 Regular Session Coussan
Abstract: Removes the requirement for freshwater charter boat fishing guide licenses.
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. Specifies that
the annual fee for a resident freshwater charter boat fishing guide license is $150. Specifies
that the annual fee for a nonresident freshwater charter boat fishing guide license is $500.
Proposed law removes the requirement that a charter boat fishing guide obtain freshwater
charter boat fishing guide licenses in order to conduct guided fishing tours in freshwater.
(Amends R.S. 56:302.9(C)(2); Repeals R.S. 56:302.9(C)(3))
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