---
type: "Bill"
title: "STATE DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to overtime compensation of Department of State employees for election-related activities during certain time periods (EN +$271,605 GF EX See Note)"
description: "STATE DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to overtime compensation of Department of State employees for election-related activities during certain time periods (EN +$271,605 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 248"
citation: "Louisiana HB 248 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lance Harris"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-26"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03419c77-8151-4aab-b1cd-96543bae9a04"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237800"
source_hash: "50e5e5b6ebad38290e92e26dd4ae0365af722b8d8ffbb2ca2b161eb15fd50064"
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 248 (2020) — STATE DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to overtime compensation of Department of State employees for election-related activities during certain time periods (EN +$271,605 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB248 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1159970)
2. **HB248 Act 253** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182324)
3. **HB248 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169924)
4. **HB248 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177900)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#582) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#334) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lance Harris — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 253. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-31** 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 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-28** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2020-05-27** Rules suspended.
- **2020-05-27** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2020-05-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-20** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-18** Reported favorably (20-0).
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/03419c77-8151-4aab-b1cd-96543bae9a04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).