---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX/INCOME-INDIV/CREDIT: Establishes a tax credit for purchases of firearm safety devices (EN -$500,000 GF RV See Note)"
description: "TAX/INCOME-INDIV/CREDIT: Establishes a tax credit for purchases of firearm safety devices (EN -$500,000 GF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 247"
citation: "Louisiana HB 247 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mandie Landry"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-28"
last_action: "2023-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce131578-b70c-4fe0-8732-537d1c9fbfa2"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244119"
source_hash: "d4941a2cd48b781708fdefb462811f61742c062011a18074c5328f6bb702d5bf"
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 247 (2023) — TAX/INCOME-INDIV/CREDIT: Establishes a tax credit for purchases of firearm safety devices (EN -$500,000 GF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB247 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306331)
2. **HB247 Act 403** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332741)
3. **HB247 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323046)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1157, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311742)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2995, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322413)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3087, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323003)
7. **HB247 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329738)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#789) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#599) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mandie Landry — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 403. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-30** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2023.
- **2023-05-18** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce131578-b70c-4fe0-8732-537d1c9fbfa2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).