republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020/hb-781.md

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Bill	WEAPONS: Provides relative to the authority to regulate the manufacture, possession, or sale of firearms or ammunition during a declared emergency or disaster or public health emergency	WEAPONS: Provides relative to the authority to regulate the manufacture, possession, or sale of firearms or ammunition during a declared emergency or disaster or public health emergency	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020	HB 781	Louisiana HB 781 (2020)	bill		enacted	Blake Miguez	8	16	2	2020-03-31	2020-06-12	openstates	ocd-bill/a73c03af-7063-4d98-980a-ccaaa29fafab	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238693	08a1758bcff31e43410585bf023c217e7bacdfb527e67ad416f37a82928af9c1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 781 (2020) — WEAPONS: Provides relative to the authority to regulate the manufacture, possession, or sale of firearms or ammunition during a declared emergency or disaster or public health emergency

Version chain

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

1. HB781 Original (filed) — source
2. HB781 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB781 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB781 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1358, ACRJ, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1919, ACRJ, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #2433, Miguez, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. HB781 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#593) — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#395) — 80–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Blake Miguez — primary (person)
• Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Buddy Mincey — cosponsor (person)
• C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
• Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
• Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
• Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
• Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
• Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
• Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Scott McKnight — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
• Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
• William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-12 Effective date: 08/01/2020.
• 2020-06-12 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 325. executive-signature
• 2020-06-02 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2020-06-01 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-05-31 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-05-29 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2020-05-29 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-05-28 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-05-28 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-05-25 Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. referral-committee
• 2020-05-22 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 17. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
• 2020-05-18 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-05-15 Reported with amendments (11-0).
• 2020-05-04 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2020-03-31 Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a73c03af-7063-4d98-980a-ccaaa29fafab. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).