---
type: "Bill"
title: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides relative to the illegal carrying of weapons"
description: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides relative to the illegal carrying of weapons"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 823"
citation: "Louisiana HB 823 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38d45833-e14f-47e3-943b-8882d3a64833"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246972"
source_hash: "0c5989b0179056a4e93041226d0c772250cbf4799abca5d7ce7a33e803e0c9a7"
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 823 (2024) — WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides relative to the illegal carrying of weapons

## Version chain

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

1. **HB823 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360189)
2. **HB823 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381930)
3. **HB823 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365911)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2670, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363892)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3092, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365885)
6. **HB823 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377477)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1049) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#665) — **98–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 451. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-07** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/23/2024.
- **2024-04-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-16** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38d45833-e14f-47e3-943b-8882d3a64833`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).