---
type: "Bill"
title: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to distilleries"
description: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to distilleries"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 524"
citation: "Louisiana HB 524 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeremy LaCombe"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/516b6e2a-233f-4d38-9ca4-b3a65e184f25"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244498"
source_hash: "3ee45584f2b7bdbde1fa4819b69a35156f5a2fa3e58bcf032eb2de8e0b3838a3"
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 524 (2023) — ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to distilleries

## Version chain

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

1. **HB524 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309593)
2. **HB524 Act 127** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332007)
3. **HB524 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318496)
4. **HB524 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322594)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3034, LaCombe, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322532)
6. **HB524 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327034)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#431) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#531) — **38–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jeremy LaCombe — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — 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. 127. `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 38 yeas and 1 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 99, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/16/2023.
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** Reported favorably (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/516b6e2a-233f-4d38-9ca4-b3a65e184f25`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).