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+type: "Bill"
+title: "WEAPONS/HANDGUNS: Authorizes a concealed handgun permit holder to carry a concealed handgun in a place of worship"
+description: "WEAPONS/HANDGUNS: Authorizes a concealed handgun permit holder to carry a concealed handgun in a place of worship"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 334"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 334 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Fontenot"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2020-02-27"
+last_action: "2020-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81548591-13e6-4501-8b6a-16e4ede72e60"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237927"
+source_hash: "4149ddd26d3fd9f7f88a93c001bf60d5566075c116399b65caf84be17424bb0a"
+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 334 (2020) — WEAPONS/HANDGUNS: Authorizes a concealed handgun permit holder to carry a concealed handgun in a place of worship
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB334 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1161502)
+2. **HB334 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181919)
+3. **HB334 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171958)
+4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2356, Fields, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177768)
+5. **HB334 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178566)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#600) — **23–9** (pass) · upper
+- RETURN CAL - SUBJ TO CALL (#599) — **13–15** (fail) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#678) — **76–20** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#384) — **72–24** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Fontenot — primary (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Buddy Mincey — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — 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)
+- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
+- Jonathan Goudeau — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- Polly Thomas — 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)
+- Scott McKnight — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
+- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 186. `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.
+- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 76, nays 20, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
+- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2020-05-29** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 23 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
+- **2020-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended.
+- **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, roll called on final passage, yeas 72, nays 24. 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 (10-1).
+- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81548591-13e6-4501-8b6a-16e4ede72e60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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