---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTION OFFENSES: Provides relative to acts prohibited during early voting or on election day. (gov sig)"
description: "ELECTION OFFENSES: Provides relative to acts prohibited during early voting or on election day. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 64"
citation: "Louisiana SB 64 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Louie Bernard"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-23"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ded45e7e-9326-47c9-8798-cbc72668e5ad"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239997"
source_hash: "564292628dfa4f576a1d45dd5677d0d38d0f576762d40f24c63115e27a7764fa"
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 SB 64 (2021) — ELECTION OFFENSES: Provides relative to acts prohibited during early voting or on election day. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB64 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1205819)
2. **SB64 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232770)
3. **SB64 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213962)
4. **SB64 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215630)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #472, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213293)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #729, Bernard, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215215)
7. **SB64 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229668)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#60) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#809) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Louie Bernard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-04** Effective date 6/4/2021.
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 85. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2021.
- **2021-05-24** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-19** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-14** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ded45e7e-9326-47c9-8798-cbc72668e5ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).