---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTIONS: Requires persons conducting exit polls within six hundred feet of a polling place to register with the secretary of state"
description: "ELECTIONS: Requires persons conducting exit polls within six hundred feet of a polling place to register with the secretary of state"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 141"
citation: "Louisiana HB 141 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joe Stagni"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-17"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96eb8605-cd16-4b4c-9c40-8ee7955f8cae"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239946"
source_hash: "06b4bdaf2c25db7d8dee5f35b9c0c3b427a9a2ce47d5c7e18e3c145f818d7bf8"
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 141 (2021) — ELECTIONS: Requires persons conducting exit polls within six hundred feet of a polling place to register with the secretary of state

## Version chain

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

1. **HB141 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1204595)
2. **HB141 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230365)
3. **HB141 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216343)
4. **HB141 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227002)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#91) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#429) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joe Stagni — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date: 01/01/2022.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 13. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-24** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-05** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-19** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/19/2021.
- **2021-03-17** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96eb8605-cd16-4b4c-9c40-8ee7955f8cae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).