---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTION CODE: Makes revisions to the Louisiana Election Code (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)"
description: "ELECTION CODE: Makes revisions to the Louisiana Election Code (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 581"
citation: "Louisiana HB 581 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Johnson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f063830e-cf27-42ba-93a7-265e17e4971d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240550"
source_hash: "71ae277f66a19d3f55a8e1d02c6d047cae112156e109404555f66d95119ee654"
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 581 (2021) — ELECTION CODE: Makes revisions to the Louisiana Election Code (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB581 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212075)
2. **HB581 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235714)
3. **HB581 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216742)
4. **HB581 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218697)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1170, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214630)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1524, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216660)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1797, Johnson, Mike, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218201)
8. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2139, Hewitt, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225118)
9. **HB581 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231002)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#122) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#933) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#576) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mike Johnson — primary (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-17** Effective date: See Act.
- **2021-06-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 381. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2021.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 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.
- **2021-05-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29** 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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, 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 (12-0).
- **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.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f063830e-cf27-42ba-93a7-265e17e4971d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).