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LouisianaHB 4122025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

TOBACCO/TOBACCO PRODUCTS: Provides relative to alternative nicotine products

Sponsored By: Troy D. Romero

Signed by Governor

Judiciary BJudiciary

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.

Public nicotine listings include exempt products

Louisiana’s Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control must post a public online directory of covered manufacturers and products with compliant certifications. The state must correct errors and add or remove listings as needed. Each month, it must send registered or qualified dealers and manufacturers electronic updates, or post changes prominently online. Manufacturers can also request listings for products temporarily exempted from federal application requirements by an FDA rule, guidance, or formal statement. They must provide evidence that the product qualifies for the exemption and follows that federal statement.

Nicotine makers face certification and fees

Manufacturers must certify under penalty of perjury that products sold in Louisiana, directly or through dealers, meet federal-status rules. Products need FDA marketing authorization or an application that remains under review or meets the law’s stay, injunction, or appeal conditions. The application route requires vapor products on the U.S. market by August 8, 2016, with applications filed by September 9, 2020; alternative nicotine products have deadlines of April 14, 2022, and May 14, 2022, respectively. Manufacturers must submit application cover pages and proof of FDA receipt, or authorization cover pages, and report material changes within 30 days. They pay $100 per product stock keeping unit (SKU) initially and $100 per SKU each year; fees fund certification processing and the directory.

Nicotine sellers face unlisted product penalties

Once the directory is public online, manufacturers offering unlisted products for sale face a $1,000 daily fine per product. Fines continue until the product is listed or removed from the market. Wholesale and retail dealers selling, possessing, or transporting unlisted products face enforcement as though they lack valid permits. Each unit sold, offered for sale, possessed, or transported counts as a separate violation. Violations of the directory rules not covered by these penalties carry a $500 fine per offense.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Troy D. Romero

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 243 • No: 0

House vote • 6/3/2025

Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.

Yes: 101 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/29/2025

Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

House vote • 5/8/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 89 • No: 0

House vote • 4/30/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 16 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 274.

    6/11/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/11/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/9/2025House

  4. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/8/2025House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/8/2025Senate

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.

    6/3/2025House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.

    6/2/2025House

  8. Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/29/2025Senate

  9. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/29/2025House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/27/2025Senate

  11. Rules suspended.

    5/21/2025Senate

  12. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/21/2025Senate

  13. Reported with amendments.

    5/20/2025Senate

  14. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.

    5/13/2025Senate

  15. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    5/12/2025Senate

  16. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/8/2025House

  17. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2025.

    5/6/2025House

  18. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/5/2025House

  19. Reported favorably (16-0).

    4/30/2025House

  20. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

    4/14/2025House

  21. Prefiled.

    4/3/2025House

  22. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

    4/3/2025House

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