---
type: "Bill"
title: "GAMING/REVENUE: Provides relative to taxation of online sports wagering and video poker and dedicates certain gaming revenues (EN +$34,700,000 SD RV See Note)"
description: "GAMING/REVENUE: Provides relative to taxation of online sports wagering and video poker and dedicates certain gaming revenues (EN +$34,700,000 SD RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 639"
citation: "Louisiana HB 639 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-16"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e99951d0-7c05-4acd-8129-5bcd72ff5bdf"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248840"
source_hash: "fede2f5ded8cbaf7240ba9828256c5852f63fc3379f61d2dbc395d25fecf47fa"
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 639 (2025) — GAMING/REVENUE: Provides relative to taxation of online sports wagering and video poker and dedicates certain gaming revenues (EN +$34,700,000 SD RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB639 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406090)
2. **HB639 Act 298** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425612)
3. **HB639 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409232)
4. **HB639 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416796)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1558, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407732)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1731, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408715)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1733, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409184)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3195, Riser, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416336)
9. **HB639 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423114)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#734) — **35–3** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#514) — **74–16** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Neil Riser — primary (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (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. 298. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 3 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-06-03** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2025-06-03** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2025-06-02** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `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 74, nays 16. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
- **2025-05-15** Notice given.
- **2025-05-07** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-07** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2025.
- **2025-05-06** Notice given.
- **2025-05-06** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-28** Reported with amendments (20-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-16** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e99951d0-7c05-4acd-8129-5bcd72ff5bdf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).