COMMERCE: Provides relative to preventing restaurant reservation fraud
HB 90 requires third-party reservation platforms to verify a restaurant's identity before allowing bookings, preventing fraud where fake reservations steal business from real restaurants. It directly affects restaurants that lose bookings to fraudulent accounts and the third-party platforms that facilitate reservations. The bill mandates that platforms confirm a restaurant's legitimacy before enabling reservations, reducing unauthorized bookings. This is a concrete policy change focused on verifying business identities, not consumer fraud. The bill passed committee favorably (17-0) in April 2025.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
House Passage
Jun 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Mar 20, 2025
Signed Jun 8, 2025
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3 edits
MINOR
This bill was finalized and enrolled into law, changing its status from a proposed draft to an approved act. The core policy regarding preventing restaurant reservation fraud remains intact, but the text was reorganized to clarify that penalties apply daily per violation and to explicitly authorize the Attorney General to seek restitution for customers who paid for fraudulent reservations.
Scope change
The bill's scope of applicability remains the same, targeting third-party reservation platforms that lack a contractual agreement with restaurants.
ENFORCEMENT
Clarified that civil penalties accrue on a daily basis for each specific violation and each restaurant involved.
Added explicit authority for the Attorney General to seek restitution from platforms that process payments for reservations without a valid contract with the restaurant.
TECHNICAL
Updated the document header to reflect that the bill has been approved by the Governor and enrolled as Act No. 135.
Floor votes · Senate May 29, 2025 · House Apr 24, 2025
How they voted
36–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 37
May 29, 2025
D
Democratic11
100% Yea
R
Republican26
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
5
Committee
5
Jun 3, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 29, 2025
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 27, 2025
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 21, 2025
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 15, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (17-0).
lower
Apr 14, 2025
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.
lower
Mar 20, 2025
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Troy Hebert
RRepublican
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