---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTION CODE: Prohibits disclosure by registrars of voters, clerks of court, and the Department of State of information related to voter registration and election management computer systems"
description: "ELECTION CODE: Prohibits disclosure by registrars of voters, clerks of court, and the Department of State of information related to voter registration and election management computer systems"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 88"
citation: "Louisiana HB 88 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason Hughes"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-17"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66f16010-1091-4ee8-95db-e0cdad4a93ed"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237519"
source_hash: "fa253694f43ce7c5f26c23215f12898069ea4346a6d6be82ad87532732b6257b"
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 88 (2020) — ELECTION CODE: Prohibits disclosure by registrars of voters, clerks of court, and the Department of State of information related to voter registration and election management computer systems

## Version chain

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

1. **HB88 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1155329)
2. **HB88 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181902)
3. **HB88 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172105)
4. **HB88 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177303)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#468) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#233) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jason Hughes — primary (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. 169. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** 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.
- **2020-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** 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.
- **2020-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/20.
- **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.
- **2020-02-17** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66f16010-1091-4ee8-95db-e0cdad4a93ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).