---
type: "Bill"
title: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to delivery of ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages by restaurants"
description: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to delivery of ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages by restaurants"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 219"
citation: "Louisiana HB 219 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John \"Big John\" Illg , Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-25"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce76b869-36f1-4f1e-a5fc-79b85a17181a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240061"
source_hash: "eb3a87c979e83445a4585308b7d56ccf0a4898e9482ec29223dfbc779b5742fa"
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 219 (2021) — ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to delivery of ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages by restaurants

## Version chain

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

1. **HB219 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206998)
2. **HB219 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231954)
3. **HB219 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218996)
4. **HB219 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228880)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#305) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#498) — **34–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 71. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/28/2021.
- **2021-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-18** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-10** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2021.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-29** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce76b869-36f1-4f1e-a5fc-79b85a17181a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).