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LouisianaSB 1252025 Regular SessionSenate

EXPLOSIVES: Provides relative to explosives. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)

Sponsored By: Robert "Bob" Owen (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Administration of Criminal JusticeJudiciary B

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

Explosives applicants pay background check costs

Beginning August 1, 2025, Louisiana explosives license applicants must pay the department’s costs for background investigations and criminal history checks. This applies to applicants who manufacture, sell, distribute, use, blast, or handle explosives. The law does not state the charge, so applicants’ exact costs are unknown.

Bomb license rules and higher event fines

Beginning August 1, 2025, knowingly and intentionally making, possessing, or controlling a bomb without the required explosives license is illegal. Bombs include explosive mixtures with detonators or initiators and unassembled materials that can form a bomb; fireworks are excluded. The law also defines explosives to include gunpowders, blasting materials, detonators, fuses, and other materials capable of ignition in specified quantities or packaging. General violations carry a fine up to $10,000, up to 20 years in prison at hard labor, or both. The maximum fine rises to $20,000 within an enhanced security zone and within 100 feet of a government-permitted parade, demonstration, or gathering; the prison maximum stays 20 years. These zones cover public spaces in areas with over 15 million annual visitors, a sports or entertainment venue holding over 75,000 people, a convention center with over 1 million square feet of exhibition space, and a land-based casino. They include New Orleans areas within the French Quarter Management District, Downtown Development District, and New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Economic Growth and Development District.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Robert "Bob" Owen

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 144 • No: 0

House vote • 6/8/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 98 • No: 0

House vote • 5/28/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 9 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/5/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 424.

    6/20/2025Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2025.

    6/20/2025Senate

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

    6/11/2025Senate

  4. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/11/2025House

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

    6/11/2025Senate

  6. Called from the calendar.

    6/8/2025House

  7. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    6/8/2025House

  8. Received from the House with amendments.

    6/8/2025Senate

  9. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    6/4/2025House

  10. Notice given.

    6/4/2025House

  11. Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.

    6/4/2025House

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

    6/2/2025House

  13. Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/2025.

    6/2/2025House

  14. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/29/2025House

  15. Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/28/2025House

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

    5/6/2025House

  17. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/5/2025Senate

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

    5/5/2025House

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

    4/30/2025Senate

  20. Reported favorably.

    4/29/2025Senate

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

    4/14/2025Senate

  22. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.

    4/3/2025Senate

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