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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ELECTION CODE: Makes revisions to the system of laws providing for elections (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "ELECTION CODE: Makes revisions to the system of laws providing for elections (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 677"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 677 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beau Beaullieu"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-05-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6a283ff-8dd3-4075-b06a-2dabc08dd34a"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246489"
+source_hash: "10ecb7ccef792e30d1f91658ca3a95842ef0271b757836aa4017ef1d69ef9c43"
+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 677 (2024) — ELECTION CODE: Makes revisions to the system of laws providing for elections (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB677 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352412)
+2. **HB677 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380540)
+3. **HB677 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356902)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1443, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355932)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1507, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356287)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1594, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356837)
+7. **HB677 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375555)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#811) — **32–3** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#147) — **98–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Beau Beaullieu — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-28** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 390. `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 32 yeas and 3 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`
+- **2024-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-03-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-03-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/27/2024.
+- **2024-03-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-21** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6a283ff-8dd3-4075-b06a-2dabc08dd34a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+