Louisiana’s Act No. 440 doesn’t actually say anything about evading its proposed restrictions or punishing individuals who get around them. In fact, the five-page bill states that its goal is to hold accountable “commercial entities who distribute material harmful to minors”, which is later defined as just about anything sexual that lacks “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value”.
The act does lay out penalties for adult sites that fail to implement robust age-verification measures in Louisiana. However, if you’re using a VPN to evade these blocks, the site is not at fault. We believe it’s unlikely that penalties for individuals who work around the ban will be introduced. That’s because there’s no way to tell what sites you visit while using a VPN, and Louisiana’s limitations wouldn’t apply to someone who simply crossed into a neighboring state. Given that neither of these things is a crime, there’s very little chance of any repercussions.