---
type: "Bill"
title: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to civil liability of firearm and ammunition manufacturers and distributors"
description: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to civil liability of firearm and ammunition manufacturers and distributors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 289"
citation: "Louisiana HB 289 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Dewith Carrier"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42d70880-9e21-43c2-bb7c-0aa147ca8cc6"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248254"
source_hash: "e136489d3f375e51af3a4ff15699a9269824dfa0db1a94744f5e15a2f9c886ba"
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 289 (2025) — LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to civil liability of firearm and ammunition manufacturers and distributors

## Version chain

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

1. **HB289 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402178)
2. **HB289 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425099)
3. **HB289 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411664)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1990, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409878)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2231, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411634)
6. **HB289 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420773)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#585) — **27–9** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#328) — **81–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- R. Dewith Carrier — primary (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 175. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-28** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 81, nays 14. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025.
- **2025-05-07** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-06** Reported with amendments (10-2). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42d70880-9e21-43c2-bb7c-0aa147ca8cc6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).