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+type: "Bill"
+title: "STATE DEPARTMENT: Provides for the division of election integrity within the Department of State (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "STATE DEPARTMENT: Provides for the division of election integrity within the Department of State (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 285"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 285 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mark Wright"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-28"
+last_action: "2024-05-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b509bedb-156f-45d6-bebc-ac5d9958df7d"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245922"
+source_hash: "2008d1740da746ff08fc77e6b0fe11a7be6c76037db1426c9b82562d6b2cd275"
+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 285 (2024) — STATE DEPARTMENT: Provides for the division of election integrity within the Department of State (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB285 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348649)
+2. **HB285 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379623)
+3. **HB285 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358042)
+4. **HB285 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375561)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#796) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#190) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mark Wright — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 264. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-15** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-03-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/02/2024.
+- **2024-03-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-26** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b509bedb-156f-45d6-bebc-ac5d9958df7d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+