---
type: "Bill"
title: "WEAPONS: Provides for carrying of concealed firearms by qualified retired law enforcement officers. (8/1/24)"
description: "WEAPONS: Provides for carrying of concealed firearms by qualified retired law enforcement officers. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 43"
citation: "Louisiana SB 43 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49375279-4511-4ea9-aea1-ce69c6aaa8d5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245795"
source_hash: "32d3523bed246dce319982068f95537985f59ac726fcdd01236de6088b604024"
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 43 (2024) — WEAPONS: Provides for carrying of concealed firearms by qualified retired law enforcement officers. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB43 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346826)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3726, Carver, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369434)
3. **SB43 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374248)
4. **SB43 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355775)
5. **SB43 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372401)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#868) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#526) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#106) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick McMath — primary (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-13** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-05-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 30. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-13** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/9/2024. `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 36 yeas and 0 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 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-17** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-20** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-19** Reported favorably. `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 B. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** 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/49375279-4511-4ea9-aea1-ce69c6aaa8d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).