---
type: "Bill"
title: "WEAPONS: Provides an exception to certain offenses of illegal carrying of weapons for persons with a concealed handgun permit"
description: "WEAPONS: Provides an exception to certain offenses of illegal carrying of weapons for persons with a concealed handgun permit"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 124"
citation: "Louisiana HB 124 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul Hollis"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-15"
last_action: "2021-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65756c89-fcba-497c-bc03-1074a21e24dd"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239926"
source_hash: "0d93fda4e95092a3b346ff93c3f411f39e9b887b07203582ea56113d29fb00a9"
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 124 (2021) — WEAPONS: Provides an exception to certain offenses of illegal carrying of weapons for persons with a concealed handgun permit

## Version chain

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

1. **HB124 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1204049)
2. **HB124 Act 465** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236376)
3. **HB124 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218777)
4. **HB124 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232889)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#847) — **35–2** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#271) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Paul Hollis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-29** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-29** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 465. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-25** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-05** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
- **2021-05-04** Notice given.
- **2021-05-04** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/04/2021.
- **2021-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-28** Reported favorably (9-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-19** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/19/2021.
- **2021-03-15** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65756c89-fcba-497c-bc03-1074a21e24dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).