---
type: "Bill"
title: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Authorizes a family member of a law enforcement officer to purchase his duty firearm upon death"
description: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Authorizes a family member of a law enforcement officer to purchase his duty firearm upon death"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 478"
citation: "Louisiana HB 478 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Bagley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57d1cebb-1510-4359-b6ef-3afdb200b017"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236305"
source_hash: "b2daf877584ede275513bd7762bf3c5b5c177336b02b1296d12126cfde0867dc"
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 478 (2019) — WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Authorizes a family member of a law enforcement officer to purchase his duty firearm upon death

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB478 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121896)
2. **HB478 Act 162** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143695)
3. **HB478 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129910)
4. **HB478 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138408)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#512) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#300) — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Larry Bagley — primary (person)
- Barbara Norton — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Frankie Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome "Dee" Richard — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin Pearson — cosponsor (person)
- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Reid Falconer — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
- Steven E. Pylant — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Walt Leger, III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 162. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-21** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/19.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported favorably (12-0-1).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57d1cebb-1510-4359-b6ef-3afdb200b017`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).