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SENATE SUMMARY OF HOUSE AMENDMENTS
SB 118 2021 Regular Session Morris
KEYWORD AND SUMMARY AS RETURNED TO THE SENATE
WEAPONS. Provides relative to the concealed carrying of firearms. (8/1/21)
SUMMARY OF HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO THE SENATE BILL
1. Makes technical changes to the citations and title.
2. Specifies that a La. resident who meets proposed law qualifications shall not
be required to possess a permit and further specify that proposed law
provisions shall not affect present law reciprocity requirements.
3. Requires state police to provide a 60-minute online concealed handgun
education course.
4. Requires state police to maintain an online database of all licensed handgun
and firearm instructors to be made available to the public.
DIGEST OF THE SENATE BILL AS RETURNED TO THE SENATE
SB 118 Reengrossed 2021 Regular Session Morris
Present law provides for the crime of "illegal carrying of weapons" in part as the intentional
concealment of any firearm, or other instrumentality customarily used or intended for
probable use as a dangerous weapon by a person.
Present law provides for certain exceptions to the crime of illegal carrying of weapons,
including for those La. residents issued a concealed handgun permit by the Dept. of Public
Safety and Corrections.
Proposed law creates an additional exception for any person who does not possess a
concealed handgun permit but otherwise meets the same eligibility requirements as those
who do possess a concealed handgun permit.
Present law prohibits a concealed handgun permit holder from carrying and concealing a
handgun while under the influence of alcohol or a controlled dangerous substance.
Proposed law extends the prohibition from carrying and concealing a handgun while under
the influence of alcohol or a controlled dangerous substance to nonpermitted but otherwise
legal carriers.
Present law requires a concealed handgun permit holder to notify any police officer who
approaches the permittee in an official manner or with an identified official purpose that he
has a weapon on his person, submit to a pat-down, and allow the officer to temporarily
disarm him.
Proposed law extends the notification requirement to nonpermitted but otherwise legal
carriers.
Effective August 1, 2021.
(Amends R.S. 40:1379.3(B) and (I)(1) and (2); Adds R.S. 14:95(M) and R.S. 40:1379.3.3)
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Thomas L. Tyler
Deputy Chief of Staff
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