---
type: "Bill"
title: "WEAPONS: Provides relative to the right of law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns lawfully without a permit. (8/1/24)"
description: "WEAPONS: Provides relative to the right of law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns lawfully without a permit. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 152"
citation: "Louisiana SB 152 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Miguez"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/213d8725-d75e-4372-ab6c-5c04460cd2d0"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246167"
source_hash: "64b1d1be4fa2e3934c75c5ed31580afd18e9b6102a16d20ba8cb178a2de37131"
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 152 (2024) — WEAPONS: Provides relative to the right of law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns lawfully without a permit. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB152 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350860)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #1908, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362971)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3249, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366641)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3595, Beaullieu, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368944)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #4218, Beaullieu, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371852)
6. **SB152 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374243)
7. **SB152 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355812)
8. **SB152 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357743)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #842, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355069)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #934, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355674)
11. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #995, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356038)
12. **SB152 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372408)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#872) — **76–22** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#531) — **26–11** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#116) — **27–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blake Miguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-13** Effective date 7/4/2024.
- **2024-05-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 6. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-13** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/13/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-07** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 26 yeas and 11 nays.
- **2024-05-06** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 76, nays 22. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-17** Reported with amendments (9-4). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-25** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 11 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-20** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-19** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/213d8725-d75e-4372-ab6c-5c04460cd2d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).