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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TOBACCO/TOBACCO PRODUCTS: Provides relative to the signs displayed at the point of purchase of any tobacco, alternative nicotine, or vapor product"
+description: "TOBACCO/TOBACCO PRODUCTS: Provides relative to the signs displayed at the point of purchase of any tobacco, alternative nicotine, or vapor product"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 56"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 56 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Frank Hoffmann"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-05"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4b85f4d-bf71-43e8-906f-ce753e943403"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233130"
+source_hash: "b2269754721ca5462d8bfe062cd351efff7456c8d94acc40127abf050347804a"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 56 (2018) — TOBACCO/TOBACCO PRODUCTS: Provides relative to the signs displayed at the point of purchase of any tobacco, alternative nicotine, or vapor product
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB56 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1062612)
+2. **HB56 Act 188** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099044)
+3. **HB56 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1083870)
+4. **HB56 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1086413)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2379, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1083534)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2419, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1083851)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #2597, Hoffmann, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1084793)
+8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2217, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1083990)
+9. **HB56 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094169)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#781) — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#421) — **82–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Frank Hoffmann — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 11/01/2018.
+- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 188. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-08** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2018-05-07** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-05-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-05-02** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-05-01** Reported favorably.
+- **2018-04-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-04-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/13/18.
+- **2018-04-09** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-04-06** Reported with amendments (10-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-09** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/9/2018.
+- **2018-02-05** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-05** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4b85f4d-bf71-43e8-906f-ce753e943403`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+