republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-540.md

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Bill	GAMBLING/VIDEO POKER: Provides relative to video poker (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)	GAMBLING/VIDEO POKER: Provides relative to video poker (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 540	Louisiana HB 540 (2025)	bill		enacted	Bryan Fontenot	14	22	3	2025-04-04	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/7c6f080e-8253-4350-8657-43ffdaff3377	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248586	bb20aff9c8050019e18489dcbf391da62bed8f3f4fe3382a1053ec27fc187986	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 540 (2025) — GAMBLING/VIDEO POKER: Provides relative to video poker (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB540 Original (filed) — source
2. HB540 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB540 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB540 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1290, ACRJ, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1513, ACRJ, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #1560, ACRJ, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Committee Amendment, #2096, APP, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. House Committee Amendment, #2284, APP, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #2619, JUDB, Draft (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #2715, JUDB, Draft (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Committee Amendment, #2742, JUDB, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Floor Amendment, #3059, Talbot, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. HB540 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#724) — 27–8 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1008) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#341) — 91–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryan Fontenot — primary (person)
• Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
• Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
• Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
• Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
• Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
• Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-20 Effective date: 06/20/2025.
• 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 378. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-11 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-10 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-10 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-09 Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2025-06-08 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
• 2025-06-08 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-08 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 8 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 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-13 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-12 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-12 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 5. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-08 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025.
• 2025-05-07 Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-06 Reported with amendments (17-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-24 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2025-04-23 Reported with amendments (8-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7c6f080e-8253-4350-8657-43ffdaff3377. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).