HB 1163

HLS 26RS-2737  ORIGINAL
 2026 Regular Session
 HOUSE BILL NO. 1163
 BY REPRESENTATIVE CHANCE HENRY
 FIRE PROTECT/FIRE MARSHAL: Provides relative to the sale of fireworks
1AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 51:652(B), relative to the sale of fireworks; to provide for when
3permissible items of fireworks may be sold at retail; and to provide for related
4matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6Section 1. R.S. 51:652(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7§652. Proper naming; certification on shipping cases; time for selling; exceptions;
8sale and storage in homes prohibited
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10B. Permissible items of fireworks, enumerated in R.S. 51:651, may be sold
11at retail only from noon June sixteenth through midnight July fifth and noon
12December fifteenth through midnight January first of each calendar year. at any time.
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  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 1163 Original  2026 Regular Session  Chance Henry
 Abstract: Provides relative to the sale of fireworks.
 Present law provides that permissible items of fireworks, enumerated in present law, may
 be sold at retail only from noon June 16th through midnight July 5th and noon Dec. 15th
 through midnight Jan. 1st of each calendar year.
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 CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
 are additions.
HLS 26RS-2737  ORIGINAL
  HB NO. 1163
Proposed law amends present law to provide that permissible items of fireworks nay be sold
at retail at any time.
(Amends R.S. 51:652(B))
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.