HLS 24RS-290 ORIGINAL
2024 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 67
BY REPRESENTATIVE DOMANGUE
WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides an exception to the crime of illegal carrying of weapons
for parish presidents, police jury presidents, and mayor-presidents
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 14:95(H)(1), relative to the crime of illegal carrying of weapons;
3 to provide an exception to illegal carrying of weapons for parish presidents, police
4 jury presidents, and mayor-presidents; and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 14:95(H)(1) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง95. Illegal carrying of weapons
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9 H.(1) Except as provided in Paragraph (A)(4) of this Section and in
10 Paragraph (2) of this Subsection, the provisions of this Section shall not prohibit
11 active justices or judges of the supreme court, courts of appeal, district courts, parish
12 courts, juvenile courts, family courts, city courts, federal courts domiciled in the state
13 of Louisiana, and traffic courts; members of either house of the legislature; officers
14 of either house of the legislature; the legislative auditor; designated investigative
15 auditors; constables; coroners; designated coroner investigators; district attorneys
16 and designated assistant district attorneys; United States attorneys and assistant
17 United States attorneys and investigators; the attorney general; designated assistant
18 attorneys general; city prosecutors; designated assistant city prosecutors; a United
19 States representative from Louisiana and his designated, employed congressional
20 staffer; a United States senator from Louisiana and his designated, employed
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions. HLS 24RS-290 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 67
1 congressional staffer; and justices of the peace; parish presidents; police jury
2 presidents; and mayor-presidents from possessing and concealing a handgun on their
3 person when such persons are qualified annually in the use of firearms by the
4 Council on Peace Officer Standards and Training.
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DIGEST
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of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 67 Original 2024 Regular Session Domangue
Abstract: Provides an exception to the crime of illegal carrying of weapons for parish
presidents, police jury presidents, and mayor-presidents.
Present law provides certain exceptions to the crime of illegal carrying of weapons when
such persons are qualified annually in the use of firearms by P.O.S.T.
Proposed law retains present law and adds parish presidents, police jury presidents, and
mayor-presidents to the list of certain persons who are not prohibited from possessing and
concealing a handgun when the person is qualified annually by P.O.S.T.
(Amends R.S. 14:95(H)(1))
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