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+type: "Bill"
+title: "WEAPONS: Provides relative to the authority to regulate the manufacture, possession, or sale of firearms or ammunition during a declared emergency or disaster or public health emergency"
+description: "WEAPONS: Provides relative to the authority to regulate the manufacture, possession, or sale of firearms or ammunition during a declared emergency or disaster or public health emergency"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 781"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 781 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blake Miguez"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-03-31"
+last_action: "2020-06-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a73c03af-7063-4d98-980a-ccaaa29fafab"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238693"
+source_hash: "08a1758bcff31e43410585bf023c217e7bacdfb527e67ad416f37a82928af9c1"
+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 781 (2020) — WEAPONS: Provides relative to the authority to regulate the manufacture, possession, or sale of firearms or ammunition during a declared emergency or disaster or public health emergency
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB781 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1167891)
+2. **HB781 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182509)
+3. **HB781 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172336)
+4. **HB781 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175636)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1358, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1168421)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1919, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172280)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #2433, Miguez, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174956)
+8. **HB781 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177931)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#593) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#395) — **80–17** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blake Miguez — primary (person)
+- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — 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)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean-Paul Coussan — 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)
+- 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)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott McKnight — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy D. Romero — 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. 325. `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 34 yeas and 0 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 80, nays 17. 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-15** Reported with amendments (11-0).
+- **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/a73c03af-7063-4d98-980a-ccaaa29fafab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+