---
type: "Bill"
title: "WEAPONS/HANDGUNS: Provides relative to concealed handgun permits"
description: "WEAPONS/HANDGUNS: Provides relative to concealed handgun permits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 407"
citation: "Louisiana HB 407 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lauren Ventrella"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/265ab607-4b7c-4296-98d5-319801c9caf8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248413"
source_hash: "a48ab43576557b69f39ed4a0a4de6c3aea0117b317b97a5341e887527b69f876"
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 407 (2025) — WEAPONS/HANDGUNS: Provides relative to concealed handgun permits

## Version chain

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

1. **HB407 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403282)
2. **HB407 Act 273** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1428860)
3. **HB407 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416431)
4. **HB407 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422839)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#713) — **29–9** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#606) — **71–16** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lauren Ventrella — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 273. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 16. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2025.
- **2025-05-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-20** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/265ab607-4b7c-4296-98d5-319801c9caf8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).