---
type: "Bill"
title: "TOBACCO/TOBACCO PRODUCTS: Provides relative to alternative nicotine products"
description: "TOBACCO/TOBACCO PRODUCTS: Provides relative to alternative nicotine products"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 412"
citation: "Louisiana HB 412 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Troy D. Romero"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18664c7a-26af-4d21-ab6a-5ca4cd51b2eb"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248418"
source_hash: "a1483ee609bf0c41548c5b410a0b33ae6768dadb987667b61ba29b9906e356cc"
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 412 (2025) — TOBACCO/TOBACCO PRODUCTS: Provides relative to alternative nicotine products

## Version chain

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

1. **HB412 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403343)
2. **HB412 Act 274** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425587)
3. **HB412 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410208)
4. **HB412 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413195)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2425, Romero, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412327)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1161, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410631)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1950, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416251)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1990, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416394)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2293, Cathey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418472)
10. **HB412 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421679)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#472) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#296) — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#807) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Troy D. Romero — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 274. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-21** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended.
- **2025-05-20** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2025.
- **2025-05-05** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Reported favorably (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/18664c7a-26af-4d21-ab6a-5ca4cd51b2eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).