---
type: "Bill"
title: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Authorizes commissioned officers of the Dept. of Agriculture and Forestry to purchase their service weapon upon retirement"
description: "WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Authorizes commissioned officers of the Dept. of Agriculture and Forestry to purchase their service weapon upon retirement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 95"
citation: "Louisiana HB 95 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Carter"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-24"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b051f34-5c2d-430c-9f5c-a66e81b3c229"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247992"
source_hash: "be9de284dcf3ba90b657cb72fbc25712e1886a8fd83cd4577cabf9872374a2a9"
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 95 (2025) — WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Authorizes commissioned officers of the Dept. of Agriculture and Forestry to purchase their service weapon upon retirement

## Version chain

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

1. **HB95 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1397947)
2. **HB95 Act 58** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422264)
3. **HB95 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410369)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2011, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410138)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2039, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410283)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1591, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413731)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1641, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414095)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1644, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414113)
9. **HB95 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418574)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#619) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#268) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#303) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robert Carter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 58. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/27/2025.
- **2025-05-21** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-20** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-14** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-13** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2025.
- **2025-05-05** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/28/2025.
- **2025-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0b051f34-5c2d-430c-9f5c-a66e81b3c229`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).