---
type: "Bill"
title: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE PERMT: Provides relative to limitations on the issuance of certain alcoholic beverage permits"
description: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE PERMT: Provides relative to limitations on the issuance of certain alcoholic beverage permits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 481"
citation: "Louisiana HB 481 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tammy Phelps"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/391b83c9-ca29-4a1a-8c85-97b166a1ec3a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248513"
source_hash: "0a5c22ef794563f017c6872ab0ddeb37bf405f034da3d368761e7051980aa838"
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 481 (2025) — ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE PERMT: Provides relative to limitations on the issuance of certain alcoholic beverage permits

## Version chain

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

1. **HB481 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403993)
2. **HB481 Act 503** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427695)
3. **HB481 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415399)
4. **HB481 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416661)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2611, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413422)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2981, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415382)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3202, Phelps, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416353)
8. **HB481 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422952)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#723) — **34–5** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#504) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tammy Phelps — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-07-01** Becomes Act No. 503 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 5 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
- **2025-05-19** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-15** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/391b83c9-ca29-4a1a-8c85-97b166a1ec3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).