---
type: "Bill"
title: "WEAPONS: Provides relative to the illegal carrying of weapons. (8/1/25)"
description: "WEAPONS: Provides relative to the illegal carrying of weapons. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 101"
citation: "Louisiana SB 101 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Miguez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7cf4c58f-0920-45fd-9f7c-a3e544c16c1b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248340"
source_hash: "1d9b105f7d90861053ec4f4e250dab91648393e2aa9d53749b6e376fa500bc01"
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 101 (2025) — WEAPONS: Provides relative to the illegal carrying of weapons. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB101 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402789)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3216, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416527)
3. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2054, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416863)
4. **SB101 Act 420** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425988)
5. **SB101 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407129)
6. **SB101 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423688)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#789) — **74–23** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#68) — **28–11** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#843) — **31–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blake Miguez — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 420. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-10** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 31 yeas and 8 nays.
- **2025-06-03** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 74, nays 23. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-03** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-03** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Notice given.
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.
- **2025-05-22** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-21** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-20** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-22** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** 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/7cf4c58f-0920-45fd-9f7c-a3e544c16c1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).