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type: "Bill"
title: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to vapor products and alternative nicotine products"
description: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to vapor products and alternative nicotine products"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 244"
citation: "Louisiana HB 244 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vincent J. Pierre"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d9eab11-0c04-4b3f-b812-2a5e87849a75"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235972"
source_hash: "cf249fc1b28e6e25aafddab5e7b3d3f32f3667bfcbeaa1acaff43ccd8d66219f"
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 244 (2019) — ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to vapor products and alternative nicotine products
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB244 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119476)
2. **HB244 Act 424** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144899)
3. **HB244 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130540)
4. **HB244 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134772)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2048, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130495)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2730, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134478)
7. **HB244 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142171)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#894) — **370** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#347) — **910** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Vincent J. Pierre — primary (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-07-30** Effective date: 06/20/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 424. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-31** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/19.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-02** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d9eab11-0c04-4b3f-b812-2a5e87849a75`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).