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+type: "Bill"
+title: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides relative to automatic weapons (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides relative to automatic weapons (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 331"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 331 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["R. Dewith Carrier"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-29"
+last_action: "2023-06-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2da672d-da44-497b-a273-1f006957e73b"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244228"
+source_hash: "5fe8ba67d0683d06a822b13c5a42b0631af7e24108ad4f12dfbd19d50b75359d"
+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 331 (2023) — WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides relative to automatic weapons (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB331 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307687)
+2. **HB331 Act 120** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331998)
+3. **HB331 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320980)
+4. **HB331 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327017)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#526) — **100–1** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#525) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- R. Dewith Carrier — primary (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
+- Jonathan Goudeau — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 120. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-18** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2023.
+- **2023-05-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-10** Reported favorably (9-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
+- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a2da672d-da44-497b-a273-1f006957e73b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+