---
type: "Bill"
title: "WEAPONS: Provides for the preemption of state law for firearms. (8/1/24)"
description: "WEAPONS: Provides for the preemption of state law for firearms. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 194"
citation: "Louisiana SB 194 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Miguez"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd4825b2-bce1-44fd-902c-5d56b1b4fba3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246241"
source_hash: "0602cb4e684ddf46fcaf1cce899468ffbc4e71a3327582b20df7e8587f0abb80"
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 194 (2024) — WEAPONS: Provides for the preemption of state law for firearms. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB194 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351135)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3596, Riser, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368946)
3. **SB194 Act 59** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375773)
4. **SB194 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358139)
5. **SB194 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363613)
6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1472, Miguez, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360879)
7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1271, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358645)
8. **SB194 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372384)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#210) — **28–11** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#532) — **28–11** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#873) — **73–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blake Miguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-15** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 59. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-13** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/13/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-07** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays.
- **2024-05-06** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 25. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-17** Reported favorably (8-4). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-26** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-18** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary C.
- **2024-03-18** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** 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/bd4825b2-bce1-44fd-902c-5d56b1b4fba3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).