ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE PERMT: Provides relative to alcoholic beverage permits

HLS 26RS-918 ORIGINAL
2026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 424
BY REPRESENTATIVE FIRMENT
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE PERMT: Provides relative to alcoholic beverage permits
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 26:583.1, relative to alcoholic beverage permits; to provide for limitations on
3 the issuance of Class B and C alcohol permits; to require a local option election for
4 the authorization of the issuance of permits in certain annexed areas; to limit the
5 application of law to certain alcohol permits; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 26:583.1 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
8 §583.1. Effect of merger; local option election; Class B and C permits
9 A. When territory in which the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited by
10 local option election is annexed into a municipality permitting such sales, a permit
11 for the sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption shall not be issued
12 for any premises located within such annexed territory unless authorized by local
13 option election conducted in the ward or election district in which the premises were
14 located prior to annexation.
15 B. This Section shall apply only to Class B and Class C retail permits.
16 C. Nothing in this Section shall invalidate any permit issued prior to the
17 effective date of this Section.
Page 1 of 2
CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.
HLS 26RS-918 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 424
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 424 Original 2026 Regular Session Firment
Abstract: Provides relative to package House-Class B and Package store Class C alcohol
permits.
Present law (R.S. 26:583) provides that when a portion of a ward, election district, or
municipality is annexed or made a part of another ward, election district, municipality, or
city-parish government, the portion annexed or made a part of is required to take on the legal
sales characteristics of the ward, election district, municipality, or city-parish government
to which it is annexed or made a part of.
Present law provisions apply to any election previously called or any other local option law
and to any territory covered by such election which has subsequently been merged with
another ward, election district, incorporated municipality, or portion thereof or whose
boundary has been changed.
Present law provides that it is the intention of the legislature that the sale of beverages be
permitted or prohibited only in an entire ward, election district, or incorporated municipality
and not in any portion thereof.
Present law exempts package house permits from the provisions of present law that require
the annexed ward, election district, municipality, or city-parish government to take on the
legal sales characteristics to which it is annexed or made a part of.
Proposed law retains present law but provides that if an annexed area prohibited the sale of
alcoholic beverages, an alcohol permit cannot be issued unless a local option election is held
to approve the sale of alcohol in the annexed area.
Proposed law applies only to Class B and C permits.
Proposed law does not invalidate permits issued prior to the passage of proposed law.
(Adds R.S. 26:583.1)
Page 2 of 2
CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.