---
type: "Bill"
title: "TOBACCO/TOBACCO PRODUCTS: Provides relative to the age limitations to purchase vapor products (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)"
description: "TOBACCO/TOBACCO PRODUCTS: Provides relative to the age limitations to purchase vapor products (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 473"
citation: "Louisiana HB 473 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buddy Mincey"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9feccf1e-2271-4164-97f7-42e7f961c367"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240427"
source_hash: "f180a8f02f515a4629bc95bf1ea161765a4f380162a82fde97267fea1df68458"
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 473 (2021) — TOBACCO/TOBACCO PRODUCTS: Provides relative to the age limitations to purchase vapor products (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB473 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211540)
2. **HB473 Act 403** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235801)
3. **HB473 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219202)
4. **HB473 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222803)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1947, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219150)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1384, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219335)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3295, White, B, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231297)
8. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2770, Pope, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228853)
9. **HB473 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233647)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#320) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1120) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3295 BY WHITE, HB 473 BY MINCEY (#850) — **8–27** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#851) — **36–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Buddy Mincey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-16** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 403. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **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.
- **2021-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-29** Reported with amendments (8-2).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9feccf1e-2271-4164-97f7-42e7f961c367`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).