--- type: "Bill" title: "CONTRACTS: Provides relative to prohibition on certain governmental entity contracts with companies that discriminate against firearm and ammunition industries. (8/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)" description: "CONTRACTS: Provides relative to prohibition on certain governmental entity contracts with companies that discriminate against firearm and ammunition industries. (8/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2024" identifier: "SB 234" citation: "Louisiana SB 234 (2024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Blake Miguez"] version_count: 9 action_count: 19 vote_count: 3 first_action: "2024-03-01" last_action: "2024-06-11" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e95d8362-edfc-477d-8a29-c16f31dc31e9" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246394" source_hash: "0d64dc9fae89d41025d7d1f9ab6d60cd0ce1d5984610b35d63751632036ffe9d" 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 234 (2024) — CONTRACTS: Provides relative to prohibition on certain governmental entity contracts with companies that discriminate against firearm and ammunition industries. (8/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX) ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **SB234 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352036) 2. **House Committee Amendment, #4718, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375215) 3. **House Committee Amendment, #4863, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376573) 4. **SB234 Act 581** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382242) 5. **SB234 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370758) 6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1451, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360545) 7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2240, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367527) 8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2657, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369685) 9. **SB234 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379044) ## Votes - CONCUR (#1218) — **28–9** (pass) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#1349) — **64–23** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#487) — **27–10** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Blake Miguez — primary (person) - Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person) - Beth Billings — cosponsor (person) - Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person) - Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person) - Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person) - Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person) - Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person) - Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person) - Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person) - Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person) - Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person) - Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person) - Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person) - R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person) - Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person) - Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person) - Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2024. - **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 581. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt` - **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House. - **2024-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled` - **2024-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 28 yeas and 9 nays. - **2024-05-23** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt` - **2024-05-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 64, nays 23. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2024-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2024. - **2024-05-22** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2024-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. - **2024-05-20** Reported with amendments (17-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-05-07** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee` - **2024-05-06** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules. - **2024-05-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 10 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2024-04-30** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage. - **2024-04-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee` - **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Finance. `filing, referral-committee` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e95d8362-edfc-477d-8a29-c16f31dc31e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).