---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTIONS: Provides relative to the preparation and verification process of absentee and early voting ballots prior to election day (EN +$129,600 GF EX See Note)"
description: "ELECTIONS: Provides relative to the preparation and verification process of absentee and early voting ballots prior to election day (EN +$129,600 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 388"
citation: "Louisiana HB 388 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lance Harris"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8604a391-7851-4374-baa1-59348dcf491f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240300"
source_hash: "9ae948907b20f7edef9008b9e7ec8c84732b9079d39f75425afcb4001e0e7703"
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 388 (2021) — ELECTIONS: Provides relative to the preparation and verification process of absentee and early voting ballots prior to election day (EN +$129,600 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB388 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210604)
2. **HB388 Act 423** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235924)
3. **HB388 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216763)
4. **HB388 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225917)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1175, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213939)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1545, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216555)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2983, Harris, Lance, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225125)
8. **HB388 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232982)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#514) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#868) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lance Harris — primary (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-21** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 423. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. 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.
- **2021-06-01** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-18** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-18** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2021.
- **2021-05-12** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-11** Reported favorably (20-0).
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2021-04-22** 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.
- **2021-04-01** 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/8604a391-7851-4374-baa1-59348dcf491f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).