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LouisianaSB 2772026 Regular SessionSenate

WEAPONS: Provides for certain state officials to carry a concealed weapon. (8/1/26)

Sponsored By: Rick Edmonds (Republican)

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Administration of Criminal JusticeJudiciary C

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Officials and assistants gain gun-carry access

Beginning August 1, 2026, designated assistants to six Louisiana officials may carry a concealed handgun. Those officials are the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, commissioner of agriculture and forestry, and commissioner of insurance. These officials and one designated staff member each may also carry inside the state capitol, except in either legislative chamber or legislative committee rooms. Each person must qualify in firearms use every year through the Council on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Separately, qualified legislators and the attorney general with his Louisiana Bureau of Investigation security detail may carry throughout the capitol.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Rick Edmonds

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 145 • No: 0

House vote • 5/11/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 4/29/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Senate vote • 3/24/2026

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. Becomes Act No. 410 without the Governor's signature.

    5/27/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2026.

    5/27/2026Senate

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

    5/13/2026Senate

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

    5/12/2026Senate

  5. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/12/2026House

  6. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    5/11/2026House

  7. Called from the calendar.

    5/11/2026House

  8. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/11/2026House

  9. Received from the House without amendments.

    5/11/2026Senate

  10. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2026.

    5/7/2026House

  11. Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/6/2026House

  12. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/5/2026House

  13. Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    4/29/2026House

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

    3/26/2026House

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

    3/25/2026House

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

    3/24/2026Senate

  17. Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    3/18/2026Senate

  18. Reported with amendments.

    3/17/2026Senate

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

    3/9/2026Senate

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

    2/27/2026Senate

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