Legislation: batch B — IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/la/2020s2/hb-59.md

@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "ELECTIONS: Authorizes the payment of additional compensation to certain election officials for elections held within a certain period following a gubernatorially declared emergency (Item #5) (EN +$6,334,500 GF EX See Note)"
+description: "ELECTIONS: Authorizes the payment of additional compensation to certain election officials for elections held within a certain period following a gubernatorially declared emergency (Item #5) (EN +$6,334,500 GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020s2"
+identifier: "HB 59"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 59 (2020s2)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beau Beaullieu"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-09-30"
+last_action: "2020-10-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03bda4fe-3d7c-400e-bc4a-3e0b13b69dd9"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239534"
+source_hash: "66c80559b27aef022d07f020290a9bb1192f60194c8756d5ca9e0ec9e1631268"
+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 HB 59 (2020s2) — ELECTIONS: Authorizes the payment of additional compensation to certain election officials for elections held within a certain period following a gubernatorially declared emergency (Item #5) (EN +$6,334,500 GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB59 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189866)
+2. **HB59 Act 11** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1194927)
+3. **HB59 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191449)
+4. **HB59 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1192313)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #335, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190999)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #403, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191438)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #430, Beaullieu, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191647)
+8. **HB59 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1194189)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#89) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#196) — **29–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#195) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Beau Beaullieu — primary (person)
+- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
+- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-10-27** Effective date: 10/27/2020.
+- **2020-10-27** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 11. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-10-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-10-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-10-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-10-22** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2020-10-22** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-10-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-10-21** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-10-13** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-10-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-10-13** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
+- **2020-10-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/13/20.
+- **2020-10-12** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-10-07** Reported with amendments (13-0).
+- **2020-09-30** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/03bda4fe-3d7c-400e-bc4a-3e0b13b69dd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+