---
type: "Bill"
title: "GAMBLING/VIDEO POKER: Provides relative to the criteria and amenity requirements for qualified truck stops during a declared emergency (Item #32)"
description: "GAMBLING/VIDEO POKER: Provides relative to the criteria and amenity requirements for qualified truck stops during a declared emergency (Item #32)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020s2"
identifier: "HB 14"
citation: "Louisiana HB 14 (2020s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Stefanski"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-09-25"
last_action: "2020-10-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a948de2-5110-4f48-ab0e-aa53264f7fff"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239427"
source_hash: "0df2aded728de38d1448ff4e4023cd648c16fb7627dbbd9bc9406d7c83dd53d6"
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 14 (2020s2) — GAMBLING/VIDEO POKER: Provides relative to the criteria and amenity requirements for qualified truck stops during a declared emergency (Item #32)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB14 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1188858)
2. **HB14 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193741)
3. **HB14 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190167)
4. **HB14 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1192710)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#109) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#22) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John Stefanski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-10-20** Effective date: 10/20/2020.
- **2020-10-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 7. `executive-signature`
- **2020-10-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-10-19** Signed by the President of the Senate on 10/16/2020.
- **2020-10-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-10-14** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-10-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-10-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-10-06** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-10-05** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2020-10-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-10-01** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/02/20.
- **2020-10-01** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-10-01** Rules suspended.
- **2020-10-01** Reported favorably (8-0).
- **2020-09-28** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-09-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-09-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a948de2-5110-4f48-ab0e-aa53264f7fff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).