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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ELECTIONS/RECALL: Provides relative to recall petitions (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "ELECTIONS/RECALL: Provides relative to recall petitions (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 221"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 221 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mike Bayham"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-27"
+last_action: "2024-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24042402-4bc8-442a-9d28-b348cffcf071"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245834"
+source_hash: "f614698c278a69df3be0cf0e64ab2fe8d34f4689eb1239f7980c2c6eb51e8d4c"
+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 221 (2024) — ELECTIONS/RECALL: Provides relative to recall petitions (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB221 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347480)
+2. **HB221 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382288)
+3. **HB221 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364390)
+4. **HB221 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366251)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #3044, Bayham, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365626)
+6. **HB221 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380222)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#528) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1301) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mike Bayham — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 01/01/2025.
+- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 550. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-29** 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`
+- **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-23** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-22** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024.
+- **2024-04-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-10** Reported favorably (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/24042402-4bc8-442a-9d28-b348cffcf071`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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