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+type: "Bill"
+title: "VOTERS/VOTING: Changes age of a child who may accompany a parent or legal guardian into a voting machine"
+description: "VOTERS/VOTING: Changes age of a child who may accompany a parent or legal guardian into a voting machine"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 329"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 329 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lance Harris"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-30"
+last_action: "2021-06-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8f1f713-9fd2-4126-9c39-bd2d4162f975"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240214"
+source_hash: "ea2f32e1ad06958241929bd0dd359f63515c777760a8cb16b738be0bee0c8425"
+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 329 (2021) — VOTERS/VOTING: Changes age of a child who may accompany a parent or legal guardian into a voting machine
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB329 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1209303)
+2. **HB329 Act 397** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235795)
+3. **HB329 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216537)
+4. **HB329 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218715)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1210, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214094)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1514, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216512)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #1798, Green, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218059)
+8. **HB329 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232857)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#863) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#109) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lance Harris — primary (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-16** Effective date: 01/01/2022.
+- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 397. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
+- **2021-05-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-04-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2021.
+- **2021-04-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-04-22** Reported with amendments (15-0).
+- **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/b8f1f713-9fd2-4126-9c39-bd2d4162f975`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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