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---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX EXEMPTIONS: Reinstates the Second Amendment sales tax holiday. (7/1/23) (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)"
description: "TAX EXEMPTIONS: Reinstates the Second Amendment sales tax holiday. (7/1/23) (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 56"
citation: "Louisiana SB 56 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stewart Cathey , Jr."]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-27"
last_action: "2023-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7193a28-bb58-4ee1-8f6b-3c9157367929"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244091"
source_hash: "df06d31080b89c7ffe2c992be8810114451ff24bdcf5be19b5f09ce7830c692d"
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 56 (2023) — TAX EXEMPTIONS: Reinstates the Second Amendment sales tax holiday. (7/1/23) (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB56 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305949)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3283, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324176)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #4068, Riser, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329808)
4. **SB56 Act 288** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332407)
5. **SB56 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314912)
6. **SB56 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330928)
## Votes
- CONCUR (#891) — **353** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#191) — **2211** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#929) — **970** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-06-13** Effective date 7/1/2023.
- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 288. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 3 nays.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-01** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
- **2023-05-25** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-03** Read by title, passed by a vote of 22 yeas and 11 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-25** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d7193a28-bb58-4ee1-8f6b-3c9157367929`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).