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+type: "Bill"
+title: "VOTERS/VOTING: Extends the period for early voting prior to election day in presidential elections (EN +$408,000 GF EX See Note)"
+description: "VOTERS/VOTING: Extends the period for early voting prior to election day in presidential elections (EN +$408,000 GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 286"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 286 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Frederick D. Jones"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-03-30"
+last_action: "2021-06-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3245f2b-7464-488e-81c6-82d62188abe4"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240163"
+source_hash: "bc0aa4b579d6f69683aa0dbd65fc71ad95102cc322020cde2cee10702af9e907"
+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 286 (2021) — VOTERS/VOTING: Extends the period for early voting prior to election day in presidential elections (EN +$408,000 GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB286 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208933)
+2. **HB286 Act 365** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235693)
+3. **HB286 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221374)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2172, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220193)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2352, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221345)
+6. **HB286 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229608)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#405) — **91–7** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#514) — **2–0** (fail) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#513) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Frederick D. Jones — primary (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-16** Effective date: 06/16/2021.
+- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 365. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-05-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-20** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-19** Reported favorably.
+- **2021-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-12** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 7. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2021.
+- **2021-05-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-05** Reported with amendments (10-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
+- **2021-03-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-30** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3245f2b-7464-488e-81c6-82d62188abe4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+