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+type: "Bill"
+title: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides an exception to the illegal carrying of weapons for certain persons who carry a concealed firearm during a mandatory evacuation"
+description: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides an exception to the illegal carrying of weapons for certain persons who carry a concealed firearm during a mandatory evacuation"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 746"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 746 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ray Garofalo"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-03-31"
+last_action: "2020-06-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/693418f9-b090-45b2-aac0-006686d821a4"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238657"
+source_hash: "360f3c1a0fd005d88c187ca06fd2f474db9ea440f66ab82b2d08ee3ac6488b02"
+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 746 (2020) — WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides an exception to the illegal carrying of weapons for certain persons who carry a concealed firearm during a mandatory evacuation
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB746 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1167768)
+2. **HB746 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182503)
+3. **HB746 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172308)
+4. **HB746 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177901)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#327) — **89–5** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#591) — **33–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ray Garofalo — primary (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
+- Buddy Mincey — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
+- Jonathan Goudeau — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
+- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott McKnight — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
+- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
+- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 322. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 2 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, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 5. 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 (10-0).
+- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-31** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/693418f9-b090-45b2-aac0-006686d821a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+