---
type: "Bill"
title: "GAMING: Provides relative to the Louisiana Gaming Control Board. (8/1/23)"
description: "GAMING: Provides relative to the Louisiana Gaming Control Board. (8/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 192"
citation: "Louisiana SB 192 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary L. Smith, Jr."]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4609027-154c-4086-8a52-a2a11628e69d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244604"
source_hash: "741c63992a1262abae93888bcc896720aaf5a932096ed6e55bb193250dc83599"
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 SB 192 (2023) — GAMING: Provides relative to the Louisiana Gaming Control Board. (8/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB192 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309968)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3377, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324642)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3432, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324936)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #4081, Stefanski, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329875)
5. **SB192 Act 286** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332405)
6. **SB192 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315493)
7. **SB192 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330954)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#996) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#150) — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#914) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date 8/1/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 286. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-05** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-06-05** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-06-01** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
- **2023-05-25** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-23** Reported with amendments (9-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-01** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4609027-154c-4086-8a52-a2a11628e69d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).