Louisiana Gun Policy Bills

FIRE PROTECT/FIRE MARSHAL: Provides relative to fireworks

LIABILITY/CIVIL: Adds armed security officers as authorized persons subject to a limitation of liability under certain circumstances

SCHOOLS: Provides that each public school board is to install exterior master key boxes to allow for rapid entry, response, and rescue by law enforcement and first responders during a school crisis. (8/1/26) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

JUVENILES: Provides relative to the Back on Track Youth Pilot Program

POLICE/LOCAL: Requires police departments to provide notice of illegal discharge of a firearm (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

LAW ENFORCEMENT: Provides relative to funding of bulletproof vests for peace officers. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE EX)

WEAPONS: Creates the Task Force on Secure Firearm Storage.

GAMING: Provides relative to criminal background checks in the gaming industry. (8/1/26) (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)

SCHOOLS: Provides relative to incidents of assault and battery on students and school employees (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

HUNTERS/HUNTING: Provides for use of pre-charged pneumatic devices to take deer during primitive firearm season. (8/1/26)

COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Prohibits, with exceptions, a public postsecondary education institution from prohibiting a student from possessing self-defense chemical spray on campus

CURRICULA: Requests that the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, in consultation with the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, study the feasibility of incorporating age- and grade-appropriate hunting education, conservation education, and shooting sports courses into curricula for public school students in grades five through twelve

WEAPONS: Provides for certain state officials to carry a concealed weapon. (8/1/26)

LIABILITY: Provides relative to youth athletics. (gov sig)

WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Prohibits the carrying of firearms in college or university dormitories

LAW ENFORCEMENT: Requires a law enforcement agency to approve firearms and ammunition carried by its tactical medical professionals. (8/1/26)

SCHOOLS: Provides for preventing bullying in schools. (8/1/26)

CONDOLENCES: Expresses the condolences of the House of Representatives to the families of the children whose lives were taken in the mass shooting in Shreveport and affirms its stance against domestic violence

CURRICULA: Provides for a hunting course for certain public school students

WEAPONS/HANDGUNS: Provides relative to the carrying of firearms on college campuses