---
type: "Bill"
title: "CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Provides for repayment of personal contributions or loans. (8/1/20)"
description: "CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Provides for repayment of personal contributions or loans. (8/1/20)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 238"
citation: "Louisiana SB 238 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. L. Bret Allain, II"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4a5cf44-daf4-4b2d-bcbd-098794c8fed1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238010"
source_hash: "6d4909607abd3f5fc539b4a479206e9e8ad6566beb49a836e65cde119b02302f"
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 SB 238 (2020) — CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Provides for repayment of personal contributions or loans. (8/1/20)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB238 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162040)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2335, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174563)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2679, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176374)
4. **SB238 Act 314** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182508)
5. **SB238 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170017)
6. **SB238 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178507)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#635) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#566) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#108) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- R. L. Bret Allain, II — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date 8/1/2020.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 314. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-31** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/20.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-27** Rules suspended.
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Reported with amendments (12-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a4a5cf44-daf4-4b2d-bcbd-098794c8fed1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).