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+type: "Bill"
+title: "WEAPONS: Provides relative to the preemption of state law for firearms"
+description: "WEAPONS: Provides relative to the preemption of state law for firearms"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 140"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 140 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blake Miguez"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2020-02-24"
+last_action: "2020-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4042f6f-ccaa-4cc4-b844-d71aae0ac1b2"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237616"
+source_hash: "4c45ab7cc4512376637e5a121b52f55ba7175c18fcf961965d92f1826c3b8ed9"
+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 140 (2020) — WEAPONS: Provides relative to the preemption of state law for firearms
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB140 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1158010)
+2. **Conference Committee Report, #2870, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178137)
+3. **HB140 Act 299** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182376)
+4. **HB140 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172297)
+5. **HB140 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175591)
+6. **House Floor Amendment, #2359, Miguez, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174473)
+7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2247, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177255)
+8. **HB140 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179237)
+
+## Votes
+
+- ADOPT (#732) — **28–8** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#375) — **70–28** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#580) — **32–3** (pass) · upper
+- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#670) — **71–24** (pass) · lower
+- MOTION TO ADOPT (#764) — **71–23** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blake Miguez — primary (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry Ivey — cosponsor (person)
+- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
+- Buddy Mincey — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
+- Jonathan Goudeau — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
+- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Huval — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott McKnight — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
+- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
+- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
+- **2020-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 299. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-06-01** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
+- **2020-06-01** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 28 yeas and 8 nays.
+- **2020-06-01** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
+- **2020-06-01** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 71, nays 23. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
+- **2020-06-01** Conference Committee report received.
+- **2020-05-31** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
+- **2020-05-31** Senate conference committee members appointed: Foil, Mizell, and Smith.
+- **2020-05-31** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
+- **2020-05-31** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
+- **2020-05-31** House conferees appointed: Miguez, James, and Riser.
+- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 71, nays 24, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
+- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
+- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 3 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-05-28** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-05-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 70, nays 28. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
+- **2020-05-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-15** Reported favorably (7-3).
+- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
+- **2020-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4042f6f-ccaa-4cc4-b844-d71aae0ac1b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+