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LouisianaHB 712026 Regular SessionHouse

LIABILITY/CIVIL: Adds armed security officers as authorized persons subject to a limitation of liability under certain circumstances

Sponsored By: Josh Carlson (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary ACivil Law and Procedure

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Bill Overview

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Armed security officers gain limited lawsuit protection

Louisiana law extends protection from civil liability to qualified armed security officers acting within their authority. Officers must complete required training and hold an armed registration card from the Louisiana State Board of Private Security Examiners. The protection covers injury, death, or loss caused by firing a gun in justified force or self-defense. The perpetrator must be wielding a dangerous weapon, as defined by state law, when the officer injures them. The law bars lawsuits for those harms by the perpetrator, their survivors, or their heirs.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Josh Carlson

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 177 • No: 63

House vote • 5/29/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 73, nays 24, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 73 • No: 24

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 10 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 27 • No: 10

House vote • 4/20/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 70, nays 28. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 70 • No: 28

House vote • 4/13/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 7 • No: 1

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 613.

    6/2/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/2/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/1/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/1/2026House

  5. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/31/2026House

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 73, nays 24, Senate amendments concurred in.

    5/29/2026House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.

    5/27/2026House

  8. Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 10 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/26/2026Senate

  9. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/26/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/21/2026Senate

  11. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/20/2026Senate

  12. Reported with amendments.

    5/19/2026Senate

  13. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

    4/21/2026Senate

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 70, nays 28. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/20/2026House

  15. Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    4/20/2026Senate

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2026.

    4/15/2026House

  17. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/14/2026House

  18. Reported favorably (7-1).

    4/13/2026House

  19. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

    3/9/2026House

  20. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/6/2026.

    2/6/2026House

  21. Prefiled.

    2/3/2026House

  22. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

    2/3/2026House

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