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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CONSTITUTION/AMENDMENT: (Constitutional Amendment) Prohibits the use of monies from a foreign government or nongovernmental source to fund elections"
+description: "CONSTITUTION/AMENDMENT: (Constitutional Amendment) Prohibits the use of monies from a foreign government or nongovernmental source to fund elections"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 311"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 311 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blake Miguez"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 33
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-03-29"
+last_action: "2023-06-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f43f021c-735b-4b50-b74d-abcd8d02ca3d"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244208"
+source_hash: "28ea8449c3ed9c7fdd6102528ce28dccb399e8dba9ce1dc588669600cab1c699"
+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 311 (2023) — CONSTITUTION/AMENDMENT: (Constitutional Amendment) Prohibits the use of monies from a foreign government or nongovernmental source to fund elections
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB311 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307583)
+2. **HB311 Act 200** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332274)
+3. **HB311 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317892)
+4. **HB311 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323538)
+5. **HB311 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320284)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2158, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317875)
+7. **House Committee Amendment, #2494, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319781)
+8. **House Committee Amendment, #2576, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320259)
+9. **House Floor Amendment, #3124, Miguez, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323284)
+10. **HB311 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331836)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#496) — **70–30** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#998) — **27–12** (pass) · upper
+- To consider after the 57th calendar day (#1132) — **79–19** (pass) · lower
+- 2/3 vote (#921) — **27–11** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#821) — **22–12** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blake Miguez — primary (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Jonathan Goudeau — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicholas Muscarello — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
+- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-12** Effective date: See Act.
+- **2023-06-12** Becomes Act No. 200. `became-law`
+- **2023-06-12** Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
+- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 12 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-06-08** Called from the Calendar.
+- **2023-06-08** Reconsidered.
+- **2023-06-08** Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day.
+- **2023-06-07** By a vote of 79 yeas, 19 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 57th calendar day.
+- **2023-06-07** Notice Senate approved consideration after the 57th legislative day.
+- **2023-06-06** Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day by a vote of 27 yeas and 11 nays.
+- **2023-06-05** Notice of reconsideration on the next legislative day.
+- **2023-06-05** Read by title. Failed to pass by a vote of 22 yeas and 12 nays.
+- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended.
+- **2023-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-31** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 70, nays 30. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-17** Called from the calendar.
+- **2023-05-17** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2023.
+- **2023-05-10** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-09** Reported with amendments (8-5). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
+- **2023-05-02** Reported favorably (7-2-1. To be recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
+- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f43f021c-735b-4b50-b74d-abcd8d02ca3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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