---
type: "Bill"
title: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to registration and voting by a person with a felony conviction"
description: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to registration and voting by a person with a felony conviction"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 378"
citation: "Louisiana HB 378 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Samuel Jenkins"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b7437d6-4ede-48a3-92b6-b8c945ad0474"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240290"
source_hash: "aa874722ee490deec6ce43805f68c4faf6bcaa69822d636a0a98f87de0d16d7f"
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 378 (2021) — VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to registration and voting by a person with a felony conviction

## Version chain

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

1. **HB378 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210495)
2. **HB378 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234515)
3. **HB378 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218091)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1742, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217704)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1752, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217970)
6. **HB378 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229484)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#197) — **83–17** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#572) — **36–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Samuel Jenkins — primary (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-10** Effective date: 02/01/2022.
- **2021-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 127. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-02** 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 36 yeas and 2 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 83, nays 17. 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 (12-2).
- **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.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b7437d6-4ede-48a3-92b6-b8c945ad0474`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).