Louisiana alcohol laws

What Louisiana has enacted on alcohol, what each law requires, and what the bills still moving would do. Louisiana is one of 47 states that enacted an alcohol law in the 2025 and 2026 sessions.

Bills in scope
20bills in scope
Past committee
15past committee
Most recent action
8 June 2026most recent action

Alcohol laws enacted in Louisiana

12 alcohol laws enacted in the Louisiana Legislature in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, newest first. Each links to the legislature's own page.

  • HB 1018ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE PERMT: Provides relative to limitations on the issuance of certain alcoholic beverage permitsEnacted 8 June 2026

    What it does: Amends provisions limiting issuance of certain alcoholic beverage permits by exempting licensed premises in the Shreveport Downtown Development District, Bossier City, and premises purchased by existing permit holders if not in violation of law.

    Licensing and retail permits

  • HB 1029ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE PERMT: Provides relative to limitations on the issuance of certain alcoholic beverage permitsEnacted 8 June 2026

    Licensing and retail permits

  • HB 1077ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to microbrewery sales at special eventsEnacted 2 June 2026

    What it requires: A holder of a microbrewer's permit and a Class A permit is authorized to sell manufactured beverages at special events through not more than twelve permits issued in accordance with LAC Title 55, Part VII, Subpart 1 §323(B), if such permit is issued in the same name as the microbrewer's permit.

    Licensing and retail permits

  • HB 1053ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to the definitions of a "dealer" and a "retail dealer"Enacted 1 June 2026

    What it requires: A business offering alcoholic beverages on a complimentary basis must bear all costs exclusively, purchase from licensed retailers, maintain records for two years, and comply with all state and local taxes. The business must not allow manufacturers, wholesalers, or retailers to subsidize costs, must not advertise complimentary service, must not operate a bar structure, must limit service to two servings per person per day in disposable drinkware, and must not serve persons under twenty-one or visibly intoxicated persons.

    Three-tier, distribution and franchise, Licensing and retail permits

  • HB 1251ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to manufacturing distillers (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)Enacted 1 June 2026

    What it requires: In-state manufacturing distillers that distill less than one hundred gallons must obtain a permit from the commissioner before engaging in the business of manufacturing, supplying, or dealing in alcoholic beverages and must pay a fee of one hundred dollars for each year the permit is valid.

    Three-tier, distribution and franchise, Licensing and retail permits

  • HB 451ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to notices of hearings required by the ATC commissionerEnacted 1 June 2026
  • HB 805ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides for the standards of shipping containers for wines and distilled spiritsEnacted 15 May 2026

    What it requires: Manufacturers and wholesalers of distilled spirits and wines must ensure all products sold or shipped into Louisiana conform to federal standards of fill authorized by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. No alcoholic beverage sold or shipped into the state shall contain powdered alcohol.

    Direct-to-consumer shipping and delivery

  • HB 481ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE PERMT: Provides relative to limitations on the issuance of certain alcoholic beverage permitsEnacted 1 July 2025

    Licensing and retail permits

  • HB 113ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to the sale of alcoholic beverages in Washington ParishEnacted 16 June 2025

    What it requires: The governing authorities of Washington Parish and any municipality within Washington Parish may regulate the sale or consumption of high or low alcohol content beverages in Washington Parish, but shall not prohibit such sale or consumption.

    Licensing and retail permits

  • HB 212ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to container sizes for beverages of high alcohol contentEnacted 16 June 2025

    Licensing and retail permits

  • HB 12CRIME/MISDEMEANOR: Provides relative to the sale of consumable hemp products (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)Enacted 11 June 2025

    What it does: Amends provisions regarding consumable hemp products by modifying references to regulatory authority and adding a definition reference to R.S. 3:1481 for the term 'product'.

  • HB 563ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to manufacturing brewersEnacted 8 June 2025

Alcohol in Louisiana, by topic

Alcohol bills in Louisiana

The bills not yet law, furthest along first, with what each would do.

12Enacted

2Cleared both chambers

1Past committee

5Introduced or inactive

20 bills in scope

Cleared both chambers

2

HCR 41ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Amends administrative rules relative to alcohol rebatesPassed both

What it would do: Amends Louisiana administrative rule to prohibit instantly redeemable coupons and rebates for malt beverages of not more than or more than 6 percent alcohol by volume, restricting all coupons and rebates to mail-only redemption.

SR 190FEES/LICENSES/PERMITS: Creates a task force to study ways to streamline the application for and issuance of state and local alcoholic beverage permits.Passed both

What it would do: Creates the Louisiana Alcoholic Beverage Permit Streamlining Task Force to study ways to streamline state, parish, and municipal alcoholic beverage permit applications and eliminate duplicative processes, with recommendations due to the Senate by February 1, 2026.

Past committee

1

HB 1069ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to shipping to consumers from local distillersFloor vote

What it would do: Allows in-state distilling facilities with high alcohol manufacturer permits to transfer distilled liquor to other manufacturing distilleries they wholly own through wholesalers, subject to minimum still sizes, monthly transfer limits of ten percent or five hundred gallons, and receiving distillery production caps.

Introduced or inactive

5

SB 499ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Requires age verification to enter premises serving alcohol. (8/1/26)In committee

What it would do: Requires the alcoholic beverage commissioner to issue certified biometrically-bound age assurance credentials and provide scanning equipment to licensed premises, which must accept these credentials as lawful proof of age before entry.

HB 424ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE PERMT: Provides relative to alcoholic beverage permitsIn committee

What it would do: Requires a local option election to authorize Class B and C alcohol permits for off-premises consumption in annexed territory that previously prohibited alcoholic beverage sales, and grandfathers permits issued before this law's effective date.

HB 687ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE PERMT: Provides relative to the location of a premises for the issuance and revocation of an alcohol permitIn committee

What it would do: Revokes alcohol permits when a licensed premises within 300 feet of protected locations like schools, churches, or historic residences is sold, while allowing reapplication. Clarifies distance measurement methods for permit issuance in municipalities and parishes.

HB 105ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Provides relative to self-exclusion from establishments that sell alcoholIn committee
HB 546ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE PERMT: Provides with respect to the issuance of alcoholic beverage permits (OR SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)In committee

What it would do: Requires the commissioner to notify the state senator and representative within five days of receiving an alcoholic beverage permit application, allowing either legislator to prevent issuance by filing a sworn petition of opposition within thirty-five days.

Bill titles link to the Louisiana Legislature's own page.

What LawSignals covers

What counts as alcohol legislation

In scope: Direct-to-consumer shipping and delivery; three-tier, distribution and franchise; licensing and retail permits; excise taxes and fees; hemp and THC beverages; and underage sales and liability.

Questions

Does Louisiana have an alcohol law?

Yes. Louisiana enacted 12 alcohol laws in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, among them HB 1018, HB 1029 and HB 1077. Each is listed on this page with what it requires.

Which alcohol bills are moving in Louisiana?

3 bills not yet law have passed a committee or a chamber, the furthest along HCR 41 (passed both), SR 190 (passed both) and HB 1069 (floor vote).

What does Louisiana legislate on most in alcohol?

Licensing and retail permits (13 bills), Three-tier, distribution and franchise (3 bills) and Direct-to-consumer shipping and delivery (2 bills).

Are these summaries reviewed by a lawyer?

No. Which bills count as Alcohol bills, and the line on what each law requires or each bill would do, are drafted by software from the bill's own text and not reviewed by an attorney. Every bill links to the legislature's own record: read the text before relying on it. The list covers bills from the 2025 and 2026 sessions.

Other practice areas in Louisiana

Alcohol legislation in other jurisdictions

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