---
type: "Bill"
title: "GAMBLING/VIDEO POKER: Provides relative to video draw poker devices"
description: "GAMBLING/VIDEO POKER: Provides relative to video draw poker devices"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 435"
citation: "Louisiana HB 435 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Troy D. Romero"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e00c6e62-5c07-467f-b636-1761c81dd06f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240367"
source_hash: "2ce8dd5b748d3291ba04fc241b6ebf72437295781b48e0dfe23a0c6a48ccf58e"
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 435 (2021) — GAMBLING/VIDEO POKER: Provides relative to video draw poker devices

## Version chain

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

1. **HB435 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211038)
2. **HB435 Act 426** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235927)
3. **HB435 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216321)
4. **HB435 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235018)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#956) — **29–7** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#117) — **83–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Troy D. Romero — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-21** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 426. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-14** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/11/2021.
- **2021-06-10** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 7 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2021-06-07** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended.
- **2021-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-25** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-28** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 83, nays 13. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e00c6e62-5c07-467f-b636-1761c81dd06f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).