---
type: "Bill"
title: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides an exception to the crime of illegal carrying of weapons for certain persons"
description: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides an exception to the crime of illegal carrying of weapons for certain persons"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 67"
citation: "Louisiana HB 67 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jessica Domangue"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-07"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d73bee3e-218f-4e65-b04c-cacc2278e9cd"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245588"
source_hash: "c95e39972a13bdc873906c2029cc5222fc0f96e336d152d13e1d6ee3ca53532f"
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 67 (2024) — WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides an exception to the crime of illegal carrying of weapons for certain persons

## Version chain

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

1. **HB67 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1342487)
2. **HB67 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379491)
3. **HB67 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365948)
4. **HB67 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367902)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1501, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356233)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3070, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365868)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3336, Domangue, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367103)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3448, McCormick, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367557)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #3449, McCormick, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367556)
10. **HB67 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375798)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 3449 BY MCCORMICK, MOTION TO ADOPT (#639) — **27–67** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#640) — **90–7** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#884) — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 3448 BY MCCORMICK, MOTION TO ADOPT (#638) — **33–61** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jessica Domangue — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 189. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 3 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-23** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 7. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2024.
- **2024-04-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-16** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/9/2024.
- **2024-02-07** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-07** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d73bee3e-218f-4e65-b04c-cacc2278e9cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).