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+type: "Bill"
+title: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Authorizes a family member of a law enforcement officer to purchase his duty firearm upon death"
+description: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Authorizes a family member of a law enforcement officer to purchase his duty firearm upon death"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 478"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 478 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Larry Bagley"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-29"
+last_action: "2019-06-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57d1cebb-1510-4359-b6ef-3afdb200b017"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236305"
+source_hash: "b2daf877584ede275513bd7762bf3c5b5c177336b02b1296d12126cfde0867dc"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 478 (2019) — WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Authorizes a family member of a law enforcement officer to purchase his duty firearm upon death
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB478 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121896)
+2. **HB478 Act 162** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143695)
+3. **HB478 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129910)
+4. **HB478 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138408)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#512) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#300) — **89–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Larry Bagley — primary (person)
+- Barbara Norton — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Frankie Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerome "Dee" Richard — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kevin Pearson — cosponsor (person)
+- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- Reid Falconer — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven E. Pylant — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
+- Walt Leger, III — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
+- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 162. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2019-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-21** Reported favorably.
+- **2019-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/19.
+- **2019-05-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-01** Reported favorably (12-0-1).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57d1cebb-1510-4359-b6ef-3afdb200b017`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+