republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-43.md

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Bill	WEAPONS: Provides for carrying of concealed firearms by qualified retired law enforcement officers. (8/1/24)	WEAPONS: Provides for carrying of concealed firearms by qualified retired law enforcement officers. (8/1/24)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 43	Louisiana SB 43 (2024)	bill		enacted	Patrick McMath	5	19	3	2024-02-26	2024-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/49375279-4511-4ea9-aea1-ce69c6aaa8d5	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245795	32d3523bed246dce319982068f95537985f59ac726fcdd01236de6088b604024	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 43 (2024) — WEAPONS: Provides for carrying of concealed firearms by qualified retired law enforcement officers. (8/1/24)

Version chain

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

1. SB43 Original (filed) — source
2. House Floor Amendment, #3726, Carver, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. SB43 Act (committee substitute) — source
4. SB43 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. SB43 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#868) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR (#526) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#106) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Patrick McMath — primary (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-13 Effective date 8/1/2024.
• 2024-05-13 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 30. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-13 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/9/2024. 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 36 yeas and 0 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 95, nays 0. 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 (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-26 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2024-03-25 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-03-25 Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-03-20 Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-03-19 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 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
• 2024-02-26 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/49375279-4511-4ea9-aea1-ce69c6aaa8d5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).