---
type: "Bill"
title: "WEAPONS/HANDGUNS: Provides relative to online handgun education course curriculum"
description: "WEAPONS/HANDGUNS: Provides relative to online handgun education course curriculum"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 446"
citation: "Louisiana HB 446 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Miguez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ca99fea-45c1-47a4-a5d3-75175d77897a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244402"
source_hash: "d5561216c7273ab665e5ad5ffd80c4aab4c6d78b57d341468c61c097c13e0810"
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 446 (2023) — WEAPONS/HANDGUNS: Provides relative to online handgun education course curriculum

## Version chain

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

1. **HB446 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309076)
2. **HB446 Act 295** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332448)
3. **HB446 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323266)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2416, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326901)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2486, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327373)
6. **HB446 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330897)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#823) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1085) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#607) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blake Miguez — primary (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 295. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-31** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2023.
- **2023-05-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Reported favorably (8-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ca99fea-45c1-47a4-a5d3-75175d77897a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).