republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2018/hb-56.md

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Bill	TOBACCO/TOBACCO PRODUCTS: Provides relative to the signs displayed at the point of purchase of any tobacco, alternative nicotine, or vapor product	TOBACCO/TOBACCO PRODUCTS: Provides relative to the signs displayed at the point of purchase of any tobacco, alternative nicotine, or vapor product	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2018	HB 56	Louisiana HB 56 (2018)	bill		enacted	Frank Hoffmann	9	20	2	2018-02-05	2018-05-15	openstates	ocd-bill/f4b85f4d-bf71-43e8-906f-ce753e943403	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233130	b2269754721ca5462d8bfe062cd351efff7456c8d94acc40127abf050347804a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 56 (2018) — TOBACCO/TOBACCO PRODUCTS: Provides relative to the signs displayed at the point of purchase of any tobacco, alternative nicotine, or vapor product

Version chain

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

1. HB56 Original (filed) — source
2. HB56 Act 188 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB56 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB56 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2379, JUD, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2419, JUD, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #2597, Hoffmann, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2217, Pierre, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. HB56 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#781) — 33–0 (pass) · legislature
• FINAL PASSAGE (#421) — 82–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Frank Hoffmann — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-15 Effective date: 11/01/2018.
• 2018-05-15 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 188. executive-signature
• 2018-05-10 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2018-05-10 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2018-05-09 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2018-05-08 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2018-05-07 Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2018-05-03 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2018-05-02 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2018-05-01 Reported favorably.
• 2018-04-17 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. referral-committee
• 2018-04-16 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2018-04-13 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2018-04-09 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/13/18.
• 2018-04-09 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2018-04-06 Reported with amendments (10-0).
• 2018-03-12 Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2018-02-09 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/9/2018.
• 2018-02-05 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2018-02-05 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f4b85f4d-bf71-43e8-906f-ce753e943403. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).