---
type: "Bill"
title: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to alcoholic beverage products for consumption off restaurant premises"
description: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to alcoholic beverage products for consumption off restaurant premises"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 651"
citation: "Louisiana HB 651 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John \"Big John\" Illg , Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-05-04"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/563aad2d-2fc8-44bc-b8c2-931876fedaaa"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244989"
source_hash: "8fa75f4275e485968738daa448322fba3b1188dacac106eee10b8a61331c3220"
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 651 (2023) — ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to alcoholic beverage products for consumption off restaurant premises

## Version chain

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

1. **HB651 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318875)
2. **HB651 Act 130** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332011)
3. **HB651 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319028)
4. **HB651 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327056)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#448) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#534) — **38–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 130. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-16** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/16/2023.
- **2023-05-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 517 reported by the Committee on Judiciary (11-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/563aad2d-2fc8-44bc-b8c2-931876fedaaa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).