---
type: "Bill"
title: "ETHICS/BOARD: Provides relative to the nominating committee and nominees for the Board of Ethics"
description: "ETHICS/BOARD: Provides relative to the nominating committee and nominees for the Board of Ethics"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 296"
citation: "Louisiana HB 296 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Stefanski"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-28"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61bf5724-bdd0-409f-a435-e6e156411de9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241894"
source_hash: "020b235ab560e47979705a96fdee819e1b02d5280e9fd8ce8bf3bcc799fe3a18"
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 296 (2022) — ETHICS/BOARD: Provides relative to the nominating committee and nominees for the Board of Ethics

## Version chain

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

1. **HB296 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1252655)
2. **HB296 Act 43** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280946)
3. **HB296 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261568)
4. **HB296 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278456)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#546) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#130) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John Stefanski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 43. `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.
- **2022-04-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/29/2022.
- **2022-03-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-23** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61bf5724-bdd0-409f-a435-e6e156411de9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).