---
type: "Bill"
title: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to manufacturing distillers of alcoholic beverages"
description: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to manufacturing distillers of alcoholic beverages"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 647"
citation: "Louisiana HB 647 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ryan Bourriaque"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-05-04"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eecb255d-2340-45b4-8499-1a1424ef4eb2"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244985"
source_hash: "25b9aa5ef9884ad3321368a7e060a4cc64c60a9b99031a382552f3dbd5b3383a"
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 647 (2023) — ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to manufacturing distillers of alcoholic beverages

## Version chain

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

1. **HB647 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318866)
2. **HB647 Act 129** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332010)
3. **HB647 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319036)
4. **HB647 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322744)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2982, Bourriaque, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322396)
6. **HB647 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327044)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#441) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#533) — **36–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ryan Bourriaque — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (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. 129. `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 36 yeas and 3 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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, 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. 263 reported by the Committee on Judiciary (10-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eecb255d-2340-45b4-8499-1a1424ef4eb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).