---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTIONS/PRESIDENTIAL: Provides relative to the submission of nominees for the offices of president and vice president"
description: "ELECTIONS/PRESIDENTIAL: Provides relative to the submission of nominees for the offices of president and vice president"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 167"
citation: "Louisiana HB 167 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-24"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f798cb4d-0ec6-4507-bb93-34fd3339cd67"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237673"
source_hash: "8a895e33f81ed8b3b9906538e098564890ba546c317dedbb8e4c5c475333d286"
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 167 (2020) — ELECTIONS/PRESIDENTIAL: Provides relative to the submission of nominees for the offices of president and vice president

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB167 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1158651)
2. **HB167 Act 251** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182322)
3. **HB167 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172115)
4. **HB167 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177740)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#247) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#552) — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Emerson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: See Act.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 251. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-29** 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`
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-27** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/20.
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-13** Reported favorably (14-0-1).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
- **2020-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f798cb4d-0ec6-4507-bb93-34fd3339cd67`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).