---
type: "Bill"
title: "EXPLOSIVES: Provides relative to explosives. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)"
description: "EXPLOSIVES: Provides relative to explosives. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 125"
citation: "Louisiana SB 125 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert \"Bob\" Owen"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f57826d-2cc2-4118-9d00-88a3ce97a741"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248402"
source_hash: "53b63cf86f3c5729f44a40c9b57c3fea996d58cec797245a528cd71f37f43f13"
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 125 (2025) — EXPLOSIVES: Provides relative to explosives. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB125 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403243)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3585, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418504)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3662, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418810)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3980, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420879)
5. **SB125 Act 424** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426019)
6. **SB125 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409635)
7. **SB125 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424116)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#958) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#876) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#138) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robert "Bob" Owen — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — 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. 424. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-08** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Notice given.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-28** Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-05** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-05** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-29** 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 B. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f57826d-2cc2-4118-9d00-88a3ce97a741`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).