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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to the qualification of poll watchers. (gov sig)"
+description: "ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to the qualification of poll watchers. (gov sig)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 74"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 74 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Hewitt"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-02-25"
+last_action: "2022-05-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa7d504e-9b57-4a15-a25c-0ba0d8c8235a"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241770"
+source_hash: "d5629eab4fe521b94b429183de68ae14aba77e637c1c81d99130b3917c27c688"
+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 SB 74 (2022) — ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to the qualification of poll watchers. (gov sig)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB74 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1251022)
+2. **SB74 Act 178** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286277)
+3. **SB74 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261574)
+4. **SB74 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283553)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1181) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#121) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-31** Effective date 5/31/2022.
+- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 178. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/27/2022. `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2022-05-26** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2022-05-25** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2022-05-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2022-05-25** Called from the calendar.
+- **2022-05-25** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2022-05-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2022.
+- **2022-05-12** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2022-05-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2022-05-10** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2022-04-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2022-04-04** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2022-03-28** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2022-03-23** Reported favorably.
+- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-25** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fa7d504e-9b57-4a15-a25c-0ba0d8c8235a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+