HLS 25RS-538 ENGROSSED
2025 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 219
BY REPRESENTATIVE CARRIER
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Provides for deer sex identification requirements
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 56:125(B), relative to sex identification of deer; to eliminate the
3 requirement for hunters to maintain sex identification of deer after tag validation;
4 and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 56:125(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง125. Possession of game quadrupeds; tags; deer carcasses
8 * * *
9 B. Positive evidence of sex identification, including the head or sex organs,
10 shall remain on any deer taken or killed within the state of Louisiana, or on all turkey
11 taken or killed during any special gobbler season when killing of turkey hens is
12 prohibited, so long as such deer or turkey is kept in camp or field, or is in en route
13 to the domicile of its possessor, or until such deer or turkey has been stored at the
14 domicile of its possessor or divided at a cold storage facility and has thus become
15 identifiable as food rather than as wild game. Deer and turkey may be divided in
16 camp or field but, in the event of such division, each portion shall be identified by
17 the name, address, and license number of the person killing it and the sex of the
18 animal; however, it is not necessary to affix the license number as required above to
19 portions cut from the carcass immediately prior to their being consumed in camp.
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions. HLS 25RS-538 ENGROSSED
HB NO. 219
1 Evidence of sex identification of deer shall only be required to be maintained until
2 the deer tag is validated.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 219 Engrossed 2025 Regular Session Carrier
Abstract: Eliminates the requirement for hunters to maintain sex identification of deer after
tag validation.
Present law requires that evidence of the sex identification of deer and turkeys be maintained
even after the tag is validated.
Proposed law removes the requirement that evidence of the sex identification of deer be
maintained after the validation of the tag but retains the requirement for turkeys.
(Amends R.S. 56:125(B))
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.