---
type: "Bill"
title: "LAW ENFORCEMENT: Authorizes retired law enforcement officers and retired elected law enforcement department heads to carry concealed firearms if POST certified at the time of retirement. (8/1/23)"
description: "LAW ENFORCEMENT: Authorizes retired law enforcement officers and retired elected law enforcement department heads to carry concealed firearms if POST certified at the time of retirement. (8/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 130"
citation: "Louisiana SB 130 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Morris"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ecd16169-9f3d-4b43-9143-7cb1d1daa5b7"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244383"
source_hash: "8d11d42cacb17f904bec3c7cd84cb44fac1a04cab94dbc54345c37fc5a89d6f5"
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 130 (2023) — LAW ENFORCEMENT: Authorizes retired law enforcement officers and retired elected law enforcement department heads to carry concealed firearms if POST certified at the time of retirement. (8/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB130 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308847)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3982, McCormick, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329253)
3. **SB130 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332356)
4. **SB130 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315499)
5. **SB130 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319075)
6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1021, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316647)
7. **SB130 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329895)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#936) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#203) — **28–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jay Morris — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date 8/1/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 257. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-06** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-01** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
- **2023-05-25** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably (10-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-08** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-04** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ecd16169-9f3d-4b43-9143-7cb1d1daa5b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).