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LouisianaSB 1012025 Regular SessionSenate

WEAPONS: Provides relative to the illegal carrying of weapons. (8/1/25)

Sponsored By: Blake Miguez (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Administration of Criminal JusticeJudiciary C

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

More adults qualify for permitless firearm carry

Beginning August 1, 2025, Louisiana's firearm-carrying exception covers adults age 18 or older who can legally possess a firearm. It removes the former Louisiana-residency, age-21, and military-service limits. Anyone barred from possessing firearms under state or federal law remains excluded.

Private trade schools leave school-weapons rules

Beginning August 1, 2025, privately owned vocational-technical schools are excluded from the school definitions in three Louisiana weapons laws. Their property no longer falls under those laws' school-based weapons restrictions just because it belongs to a school. The exclusion also applies to the firearm-free-zone rules.

School weapon limits and concealed-carry exceptions

Beginning August 1, 2025, the law tightens rules against intentionally possessing or using dangerous weapons on school campuses during regular school hours. The prohibition also covers school buses, including buses used for school activities. Campus means all facilities and property within the school's boundary. Separate school-property and firearm-free-zone rules also cover colleges and universities. The law expands an exception for concealed handguns carried within 1,000 feet of a school campus. Carriers must have a valid permit from a state Louisiana recognizes, or qualify under Louisiana's permitless-carry exception for adults 18 and older who can legally possess firearms.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Blake Miguez

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Chad Michael Boyer

    Republican • House

  • Charles Owen

    Republican • House

  • Danny McCormick

    Republican • House

  • Dennis Bamburg Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Michael "Gabe" Firment

    Republican • House

  • Jacob Jules Landry

    Republican • House

  • John E. Wyble

    Republican • House

  • Julie Emerson

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Kellee Hennessy Dickerson

    Republican • House

  • Michael Charles Echols

    Republican • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • R. Dewith Carrier

    Republican • House

  • Raymond J. Crews

    Republican • House

  • Rhonda Gaye Butler

    Republican • House

  • Rodney Schamerhorn

    Republican • House

  • Tony Bacala

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 114 • No: 34

House vote • 6/3/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 74, nays 23. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 74 • No: 23

House vote • 5/20/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/28/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 28 • No: 11

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 420.

    6/20/2025Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2025.

    6/20/2025Senate

  3. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.

    6/11/2025Senate

  4. Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/10/2025Senate

  5. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/10/2025House

  6. Called from the calendar.

    6/3/2025House

  7. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    6/3/2025House

  8. Called from the calendar.

    6/3/2025House

  9. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 74, nays 23. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    6/3/2025House

  10. Received from the House with amendments.

    6/3/2025Senate

  11. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    6/2/2025House

  12. Notice given.

    6/2/2025House

  13. Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.

    6/2/2025House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.

    5/28/2025House

  15. Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/22/2025House

  16. Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/21/2025House

  17. Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/20/2025House

  18. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

    4/29/2025House

  19. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/28/2025Senate

  20. Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.

    4/28/2025House

  21. Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    4/23/2025Senate

  22. Reported favorably.

    4/22/2025Senate

  23. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.

    4/14/2025Senate

  24. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.

    4/3/2025Senate

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