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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ELECTION CODE: Makes revisions to the Louisiana Election Code"
+description: "ELECTION CODE: Makes revisions to the Louisiana Election Code"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 496"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 496 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["John Stefanski"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-31"
+last_action: "2023-06-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f463e9b9-fa87-4bea-917d-2a79d7701f81"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244463"
+source_hash: "f6763c2ab418136607971e64f175b3fbe8c073857cde8ed5c3ecc5588cbfc104"
+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 496 (2023) — ELECTION CODE: Makes revisions to the Louisiana Election Code
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB496 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309437)
+2. **HB496 Act 91** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331613)
+3. **HB496 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315916)
+4. **HB496 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318791)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1185, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311884)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1477, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315736)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #2012, Stefanski, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317194)
+8. **HB496 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326546)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#472) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#211) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- John Stefanski — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 06/06/2023.
+- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 91. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-18** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-17** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-04** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-03** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/2023.
+- **2023-04-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-25** 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/f463e9b9-fa87-4bea-917d-2a79d7701f81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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