---
type: "Bill"
title: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to the delivery of alcoholic beverages."
description: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to the delivery of alcoholic beverages."
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 178"
citation: "Louisiana SB 178 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. L. Bret Allain, II"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-26"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/382ab841-071d-4266-b698-006d3d70a584"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237837"
source_hash: "afdb97900b770aebece9df3c5cbb7df8f297bc486b87e11768f87698ff54d244"
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 SB 178 (2020) — ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to the delivery of alcoholic beverages.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **SB178 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1160305)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #2423, Jordan, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174882)
3. **SB178 Act 115** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181341)
4. **SB178 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169709)
5. **SB178 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172042)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1011, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169448)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1161, Allain, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170659)
8. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1250, Allain, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171017)
9. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1179, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170707)
10. **SB178 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176994)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#176) — **32–5** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 2423 BY JORDAN (#523) — **36–55** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#524) — **87–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- R. L. Bret Allain, II — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-06-09** Effective date 6/9/2020.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 115. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-28** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 13. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20.
- **2020-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-13** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 5 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/382ab841-071d-4266-b698-006d3d70a584`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).