---
type: "Bill"
title: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to alcoholic beverages"
description: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to alcoholic beverages"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 189"
citation: "Louisiana HB 189 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Randal L. Gaines"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-24"
last_action: "2023-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5431ec5a-5ff3-4624-8ac5-a558b2c2696e"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244047"
source_hash: "c356aacb196468381afbc5acfe2b164e46369963683eaedf79194945c9b51ab2"
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 189 (2023) — ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to alcoholic beverages

## Version chain

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

1. **HB189 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305127)
2. **HB189 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332524)
3. **HB189 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316741)
4. **HB189 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320953)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2421, Gaines, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319429)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2644, Gaines, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320618)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2087, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324826)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2097, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324977)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2361, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326660)
10. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2204, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325763)
11. **HB189 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331011)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#760) — **31–5** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1060) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#292) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Randal L. Gaines — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-14** Effective date: 06/14/2023.
- **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 365. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 5 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-25** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-24** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-23** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2023.
- **2023-05-01** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-27** Reported favorably (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
- **2023-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5431ec5a-5ff3-4624-8ac5-a558b2c2696e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).