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SENATE SUMMARY OF HOUSE AMENDMENTS
SB 273 2024 Regular Session Hensgens
FISH/FISHING. Provides for bait shrimp. (8/1/24)
SUMMARY OF HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO THE SENATE BILL
1. Makes technical amendment to correct name of commission.
DIGEST OF THE SENATE BILL AS RETURNED TO THE SENATE
DIGEST
SB 273 Engrossed 2024 Regular Session Hensgens
Present law provides for taking of bait shrimp in the closed season with certain gear and
prohibits the use of butterfly nets, paupiers, skimmer nets, trawls, night trawls, or beam
trawls to take bait shrimp in the closed season, except as provided in statute.
Present law authorizes the La. Wildlife and Fisheries Commission to adopt rules and
regulations to provide for a special bait dealers permit.
Proposed law retains present law and specifies that the commission may provide for the use
of butterfly nets, paupiers, skimmer nets, trawls, night trawls, or beam trawls under its bait
dealers permitting authority.
Effective August 1, 2024.
(Amends R.S. 56:497(B)(2))
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Thomas L. Tyler
Division Director