---
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).