RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 19 (HB 232) 2023 Regular Session Schamerhorn
Existing law provides that any bona fide conservation organization, which is recognized by
the IRS as a 501(c)(3) corporation, dedicated principally to the conservation of a specific
species, genus, or family of game animal, including but not limited to the conservation of
ducks, waterfowl generally, quail, and turkeys and which is otherwise permitted to conduct
charitable gaming shall be exempt from existing law licensing and reporting procedures for
conducting raffles as a means of fund-raising in a municipality or parish whose governing
authority permits raffles, bingo, and keno.
New law amends existing law to also exempt any bona fide conservation organization
dedicated principally to the conservation of game fish, including but not limited to saltwater
and freshwater fish such as speckled trout, redfish, flounder, large mouth bass, and crappie,
from existing law licensing and reporting procedures for conducting raffles as a means of
fund-raising in a municipality or parish whose governing authority permits raffles, bingo, and
keno.
Effective August 1, 2023.
(Amends R.S. 4:707(F)(4))