---
type: "Bill"
title: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides relative to automatic weapons (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides relative to automatic weapons (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 331"
citation: "Louisiana HB 331 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Dewith Carrier"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2da672d-da44-497b-a273-1f006957e73b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244228"
source_hash: "5fe8ba67d0683d06a822b13c5a42b0631af7e24108ad4f12dfbd19d50b75359d"
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 331 (2023) — WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides relative to automatic weapons (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB331 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307687)
2. **HB331 Act 120** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331998)
3. **HB331 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320980)
4. **HB331 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327017)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#526) — **100–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#525) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- R. Dewith Carrier — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
- Jonathan Goudeau — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 120. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2023.
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-10** Reported favorably (9-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a2da672d-da44-497b-a273-1f006957e73b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).