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Louisiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 542: GAMING: Provides for the allowable amount of promotional play offered by certain gaming operators and for deductions regarding promotional play (EG1 -$974,000 GF RV See Note)

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 542 is a bill introduced in the Louisiana House on April 4, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: GAMING: Provides for the allowable amount of promotional play offered by certain gaming operators and for deductions regarding promotional play (EG1 -$974,000 GF RV See Note). Primary sponsor: Steven Jackson (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (June 9, 2025): Rules suspended.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Steven JacksonPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse2

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Rules suspended.
  2. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
  3. Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
  4. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
  5. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
  6. Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
  7. Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
  8. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
  9. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.
  10. Called from the calendar.
  11. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 62, nays 36. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
  12. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

Showing 12 most recent of 21 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source