---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTION OFFENSES: Provides relative to prohibitions and requirements for digital material of a political nature"
description: "ELECTION OFFENSES: Provides relative to prohibitions and requirements for digital material of a political nature"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 188"
citation: "Louisiana HB 188 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debbie Villio"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-24"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d780636-0352-48c1-9d8d-21cb4712747b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241757"
source_hash: "d31b4b5e8229254ad64e1c4efe740d80e52488057b8d6274c58915f33bd16a4b"
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 188 (2022) — ELECTION OFFENSES: Provides relative to prohibitions and requirements for digital material of a political nature

## Version chain

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

1. **HB188 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1250521)
2. **HB188 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280939)
3. **HB188 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267609)
4. **HB188 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1269211)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1967, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266273)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2129, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266913)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2202, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267431)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2458, Stefanski, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268961)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1566, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267675)
10. **HB188 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278442)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#259) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#544) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Debbie Villio — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 05/17/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 39. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-14** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-13** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-12** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/12/2022.
- **2022-04-07** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-06** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/25/2022.
- **2022-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d780636-0352-48c1-9d8d-21cb4712747b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).