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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TAX/STATE: Exempts from state excise and sales taxes certain items given free of charge as samples at conventions, trade shows, and similar events (EN +$555,779 GF EX See Note)"
+description: "TAX/STATE: Exempts from state excise and sales taxes certain items given free of charge as samples at conventions, trade shows, and similar events (EN +$555,779 GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 127"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 127 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jason Hughes"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2023-03-16"
+last_action: "2023-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73f18337-ca24-4be1-a55a-0bd5c82ecd47"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243970"
+source_hash: "c57e7b0f4f69895c6249e26f9f84d723fe669339ddc4cf7ec8e68359b117a2cb"
+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 127 (2023) — TAX/STATE: Exempts from state excise and sales taxes certain items given free of charge as samples at conventions, trade shows, and similar events (EN +$555,779 GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB127 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1303574)
+2. **HB127 Act 297** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332450)
+3. **HB127 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323038)
+4. **HB127 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328651)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1641, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314803)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #3083, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322988)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #3899, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328370)
+8. **HB127 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331467)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 2/3 vote (#952) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#963) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#891) — **86–2** (pass) · lower
+- To consider after the 57th calendar day (#1138) — **87–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jason Hughes — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 297. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-06-07** Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day.
+- **2023-06-07** By a vote of 87 yeas, 0 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 57th calendar day.
+- **2023-06-07** Notice Senate approved consideration after the 57th calendar day.
+- **2023-06-07** Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2023-06-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-06-06** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-06-02** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-01** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-06-01** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
+- **2023-05-31** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-30** Reported favorably (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-18** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2023-05-17** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-17** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/17/2023.
+- **2023-03-16** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-16** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73f18337-ca24-4be1-a55a-0bd5c82ecd47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+