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+type: "Bill"
+title: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to the rights of voters with disabilities (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to the rights of voters with disabilities (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 449"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 449 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Willard"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-31"
+last_action: "2023-06-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49bd1114-472c-4b03-9e0a-278a39af5131"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244405"
+source_hash: "571a4448146a1258641a809cca62880491107f517da7152b8ac04ff80f535894"
+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 449 (2023) — VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to the rights of voters with disabilities (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB449 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309084)
+2. **HB449 Act 277** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332439)
+3. **HB449 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320904)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2279, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318502)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2656, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320711)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2693, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320871)
+7. **HB449 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330363)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#860) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#639) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Matthew Willard — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 06/09/2023.
+- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 277. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-06-03** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-06-03** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
+- **2023-06-01** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
+- **2023-05-31** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-24** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2023.
+- **2023-05-23** Read by title, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-22** Reported favorably (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-11** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2023-05-10** Reported with amendments (9-0-1). `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.
+- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49bd1114-472c-4b03-9e0a-278a39af5131`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+