---
type: "Bill"
title: "WEAPONS: Provides certain exceptions to the crime of illegal carrying of weapons."
description: "WEAPONS: Provides certain exceptions to the crime of illegal carrying of weapons."
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 53"
citation: "Louisiana SB 53 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-22"
last_action: "2022-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63f97bb9-ab9b-475b-9436-320f47027356"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241666"
source_hash: "f863b67c6fa0df152c32fc875b9c1e277674d65b763de23ba8662362b9e51e64"
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 53 (2022) — WEAPONS: Provides certain exceptions to the crime of illegal carrying of weapons.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB53 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1249283)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3818, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1276044)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #4715, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280469)
4. **SB53 Act 126** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1285140)
5. **SB53 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261195)
6. **SB53 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281984)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#60) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#948) — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#733) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-26** Effective date 5/26/2022.
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 126. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-25** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-24** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-23** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-05-18** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2022-05-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2022.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-05** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-04** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-03-29** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-28** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-03-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-03-23** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-22** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** 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/63f97bb9-ab9b-475b-9436-320f47027356`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).