---
type: "Bill"
title: "POLITICAL PARTIES: Allows each recognized political party to determine the composition of its state central committee. (gov sig)"
description: "POLITICAL PARTIES: Allows each recognized political party to determine the composition of its state central committee. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 351"
citation: "Louisiana SB 351 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stewart Cathey , Jr."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00ff35fb-cfd2-4052-ba21-7ef4c61fdb8f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238409"
source_hash: "f3fb90f21d04b957aa094ad2a22b367c47c69f1133cd65004aaac2f798d83fa1"
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 351 (2020) — POLITICAL PARTIES: Allows each recognized political party to determine the composition of its state central committee. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB351 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1164009)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #2795, Amedee, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177383)
3. **SB351 Act 350** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182602)
4. **SB351 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169987)
5. **SB351 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172503)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #917, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1168693)
7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1139, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170558)
8. **SB351 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178413)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#179) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#640) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#567) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date 6/12/2020.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 350. `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 33 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, 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, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-27** Rules suspended.
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Reported favorably (13-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2020-05-14** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. 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`
- **2020-02-28** 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/00ff35fb-cfd2-4052-ba21-7ef4c61fdb8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).