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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Provides for penalties for attesting to false information in a notice of candidacy (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Provides for penalties for attesting to false information in a notice of candidacy (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 351"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 351 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mike Johnson"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-04-03"
+last_action: "2025-06-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4bd51b76-6646-4a9a-bb4e-12119f217646"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248325"
+source_hash: "084cb6349cec9256e7be96ad5c963f5d82c24397ad0e4158c8513626e4ee03c9"
+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 351 (2025) — ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Provides for penalties for attesting to false information in a notice of candidacy (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB351 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402687)
+2. **HB351 Act 80** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422293)
+3. **HB351 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406187)
+4. **HB351 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408526)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1121, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405107)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1309, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406127)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #1391, Johnson, Mike, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406651)
+8. **HB351 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418557)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#32) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#393) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mike Johnson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 06/04/2025.
+- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 80. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-05-27** 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`
+- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-28** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-24** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.
+- **2025-04-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-16** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-03** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4bd51b76-6646-4a9a-bb4e-12119f217646`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+