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---
type: "Bill"
title: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides for use by licensed retail dealers of a real-time age verification system authorized by the commissioner"
description: "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides for use by licensed retail dealers of a real-time age verification system authorized by the commissioner"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 247"
citation: "Louisiana HB 247 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Armes"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c9e01e7-7908-4333-89e4-c617ae491fbb"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236001"
source_hash: "3599cb53252ed2b019c58836f62207603118d1a35563ceab22eedd2f0604cf2a"
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 247 (2019) — ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides for use by licensed retail dealers of a real-time age verification system authorized by the commissioner
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB247 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119754)
2. **HB247 Act 303** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144233)
3. **HB247 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127599)
4. **HB247 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132073)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2307, Armes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131886)
6. **HB247 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141245)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#734) — **360** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#179) — **970** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- James Armes — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 303. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-21** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-07** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/19.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-25** Reported favorably (12-3).
- **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/4c9e01e7-7908-4333-89e4-c617ae491fbb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).