WEAPONS/HANDGUNS: Authorizes a concealed handgun permit holder to carry a concealed handgun in a place of worship
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2020
Committee Review
May 2020
House Passage
May 2020
Senate Passage
May 2020
Signed into Law
Jun 2020
Introduced Feb 27, 2020
Signed Jun 11, 2020
Floor votes · House May 22, 2020
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
5
Committee
5
Amendments
1
Jun 11, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 186.
lower
May 31, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 76, nays 20, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 29, 2020
Introduced
Received from the Senate with amendments.
lower
May 29, 2020
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 23 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 28, 2020
Committee
Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 25, 2020
Committee
Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
upper
May 22, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 72, nays 24. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 15, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (10-1).
lower
Mar 9, 2020
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
Feb 27, 2020
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
1 primary · 16 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Bryan Fontenot
RRepublican
Co
Alan Seabaugh
RRepublican
Co
Blake Miguez
RRepublican
Co
Danny McCormick
RRepublican
Co
Dewith Carrier
RRepublican
Co
Dodie Horton
RRepublican
Co
Jonathan Goudeau I
RRepublican
Co
Julie Emerson
RRepublican
Co
Kathy Edmonston
RRepublican
Co
Lance Harris
RRepublican
Co
Mark Wright
RRepublican
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