---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTIONS/COMMISSIONERS: Increases the number of commissioners for the presidential preference primary election (EN +$1,449,000 GF EX See Note)"
description: "ELECTIONS/COMMISSIONERS: Increases the number of commissioners for the presidential preference primary election (EN +$1,449,000 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 330"
citation: "Louisiana HB 330 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lance Harris"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-30"
last_action: "2021-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47d15c82-be44-4ff5-8e8c-fc46538ddbfb"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240215"
source_hash: "a011295d238de5ff3d013cb5e2e5abe76dd60f7c57a26b61ff3b08fb44332aaa"
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 330 (2021) — ELECTIONS/COMMISSIONERS: Increases the number of commissioners for the presidential preference primary election (EN +$1,449,000 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB330 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1209302)
2. **HB330 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235710)
3. **HB330 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216534)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1209, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214092)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1518, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216515)
6. **HB330 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231620)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#110) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#725) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lance Harris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-16** Effective date: 02/01/2023.
- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 377. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-28** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported with amendments (15-0).
- **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/47d15c82-be44-4ff5-8e8c-fc46538ddbfb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).