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LouisianaSB 982025 Regular SessionSenate

CONTROL DANGER SUBSTANCE: Increases the penalties for the retail sale of nitrous oxide. (8/1/25)

Sponsored By: Brach Jerad Myers (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Administration of Criminal JusticeJudiciary C

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Chemical Violations Bring Fines and License Loss

Beginning August 1, 2025, Louisiana bans making, possessing, buying, selling, or transferring nitrous oxide, amyl nitrite, and covered butyl nitrite substances outside the legal exceptions. This applies to people and businesses, including online retailers, with penalties up to $25,000, one year in jail, or both. The separate ban on inhaling, ingesting, using, or possessing these substances carries penalties up to $2,500, one year in jail, or both. Violators of the broader ban who hold state alcohol and tobacco control certificates, permits, or licenses face a 30-day suspension for a first violation and revocation for a second. The Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control can investigate and must issue enforcement rules under Louisiana's Administrative Procedure Act; state and local police can also enforce the law. Judges retain the option to require drug rehabilitation as a condition of probation.

Tighter Rules for Legal Chemical Uses

Beginning August 1, 2025, Louisiana limits exceptions for nitrous oxide, amyl nitrite, and butyl nitrite, including its variants and mixtures. Medical possession and use require age 21 or older and a prescription from a licensed medical or dental practitioner to treat illness or injury. Manufacturing or industrial possession and use are allowed for manufacturers or their employees age 21 or older. Houseware possession, use, and sales require age 21 or older, as do automotive uses and sales of nitrous oxide; restaurant and food-service uses and sales of nitrous oxide as a food propellant remain allowed. Added flavoring or a label describing flavored contents creates a presumption that these exceptions do not apply, but that presumption can be challenged.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Brach Jerad Myers

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

  • Annie Spell

    Republican • House

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • Debbie Villio

    Republican • House

  • Dodie Horton

    Republican • House

  • Jessica Domangue

    Republican • House

  • Joe Stagni

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Kirk Talbot

    Republican • Senate

  • Laurie Schlegel

    Republican • House

  • Steven Jackson

    Democratic • House

  • Sylvia Elaine Taylor

    Democratic • House

  • Vincent E. Cox III

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 143 • No: 0

House vote • 6/2/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 96 • No: 0

House vote • 5/20/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/22/2025

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/5/2025.

    6/8/2025Senate

  3. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 106.

    6/8/2025Senate

  4. Effective date 8/1/2025.

    6/8/2025Senate

  5. Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/4/2025Senate

  6. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    6/2/2025House

  7. Received from the House with amendments.

    6/2/2025Senate

  8. Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.

    5/28/2025House

  9. Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/22/2025House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/21/2025House

  11. Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/20/2025House

  12. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

    4/24/2025House

  13. Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.

    4/23/2025House

  14. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/22/2025Senate

  15. Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    4/16/2025Senate

  16. Reported with amendments.

    4/15/2025Senate

  17. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.

    4/14/2025Senate

  18. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.

    4/3/2025Senate

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