---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the applicability of firearm enhancement provisions and penalties to plea agreements"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the applicability of firearm enhancement provisions and penalties to plea agreements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 79"
citation: "Louisiana HB 79 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-17"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3b07887-4749-48bb-8ca2-4a4186c6e0a9"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247966"
source_hash: "bc9311e6bae354dcb1325899e081cf8f227c825bb982c3108f9aa8e394cac31b"
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 79 (2025) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the applicability of firearm enhancement provisions and penalties to plea agreements

## Version chain

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

1. **HB79 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1397087)
2. **HB79 Act 52** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422257)
3. **HB79 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405925)
4. **HB79 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419197)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#19) — **86–4** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#425) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 52. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/29/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.
- **2025-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/21/2025.
- **2025-03-17** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3b07887-4749-48bb-8ca2-4a4186c6e0a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).