---
type: "Bill"
title: "WEAPONS/HANDGUNS: Provides relative to the requirements for concealed handgun permit safety and training course applicants and instructors"
description: "WEAPONS/HANDGUNS: Provides relative to the requirements for concealed handgun permit safety and training course applicants and instructors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 48"
citation: "Louisiana HB 48 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Miguez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-02"
last_action: "2021-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c23a7cf7-d2e8-40ba-9574-b82293fd4d4d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239833"
source_hash: "28ee17efc056fa1be0ae9f31caf890df8ea41e18dea089034fcdd984c1485976"
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 48 (2021) — WEAPONS/HANDGUNS: Provides relative to the requirements for concealed handgun permit safety and training course applicants and instructors

## Version chain

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

1. **HB48 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1201633)
2. **HB48 Act 463** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236374)
3. **HB48 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218776)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2964, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229902)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3025, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230297)
6. **HB48 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233312)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#203) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1087) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#877) — **32–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blake Miguez — 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. 463. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-10** 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.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 5 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-01** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **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 (10-0-1).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-05** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/5/2021.
- **2021-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c23a7cf7-d2e8-40ba-9574-b82293fd4d4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).