---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Provides relative to sentencing when a defendant possessed, used, or discharged a firearm in the commission of certain offenses. (8/1/21)"
description: "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Provides relative to sentencing when a defendant possessed, used, or discharged a firearm in the commission of certain offenses. (8/1/21)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 139"
citation: "Louisiana SB 139 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Harris"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-31"
last_action: "2021-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7742466b-ea40-4a03-833e-e30771e134f1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240272"
source_hash: "02d323cc45284b3d86bb868f12d650e19624ab362f74ce533e8a365c4e75a24c"
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 SB 139 (2021) — CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Provides relative to sentencing when a defendant possessed, used, or discharged a firearm in the commission of certain offenses. (8/1/21)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB139 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210151)
2. **SB139 Act 349** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235715)
3. **SB139 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217840)
4. **SB139 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231795)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#992) — **75–9** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#210) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jimmy Harris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-16** Effective date 8/1/2021.
- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 349. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-06** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2021-06-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 75, nays 9. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2021.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-25** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-03** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-27** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7742466b-ea40-4a03-833e-e30771e134f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).