---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Provides relative to a district attorney's responsibility in an action objecting to the candidacy of a person who qualified as a candidate in a primary election"
description: "ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Provides relative to a district attorney's responsibility in an action objecting to the candidacy of a person who qualified as a candidate in a primary election"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 168"
citation: "Louisiana HB 168 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Johnson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-22"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a141314a-eb98-486b-bac5-adb0a985bd9d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239993"
source_hash: "bf02d2ac1e923cbb5aca354030b31294140d71f1a65ad72e9179395687341d51"
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 168 (2021) — ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Provides relative to a district attorney's responsibility in an action objecting to the candidacy of a person who qualified as a candidate in a primary election

## Version chain

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

1. **HB168 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1205662)
2. **HB168 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235106)
3. **HB168 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217798)
4. **HB168 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229471)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#193) — **100–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#567) — **34–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mike Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 175. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-12** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/04/2021.
- **2021-04-28** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-27** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a141314a-eb98-486b-bac5-adb0a985bd9d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).