---
type: "Bill"
title: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to the amount a time a person may remain in a voting machine"
description: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to the amount a time a person may remain in a voting machine"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 285"
citation: "Louisiana HB 285 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Ted James"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-30"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4633c71f-07e2-4e35-a8bb-85bff7b5c36e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240162"
source_hash: "6a2f684b0b0941620f0c8fd7c765349d44d5f3608c7e9e5abfd8614adba3f2d1"
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 285 (2021) — VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to the amount a time a person may remain in a voting machine

## Version chain

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

1. **HB285 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208930)
2. **HB285 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230379)
3. **HB285 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217972)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1746, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217722)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1755, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217937)
6. **HB285 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226206)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#196) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#392) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Edward Ted James — 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. 22. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-25** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-24** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-18** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-18** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 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 103, nays 0. 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-27** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-03-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4633c71f-07e2-4e35-a8bb-85bff7b5c36e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).