---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to the qualification of poll watchers. (gov sig)"
description: "ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to the qualification of poll watchers. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 74"
citation: "Louisiana SB 74 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Hewitt"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-25"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa7d504e-9b57-4a15-a25c-0ba0d8c8235a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241770"
source_hash: "d5629eab4fe521b94b429183de68ae14aba77e637c1c81d99130b3917c27c688"
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 74 (2022) — ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to the qualification of poll watchers. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB74 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1251022)
2. **SB74 Act 178** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286277)
3. **SB74 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261574)
4. **SB74 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283553)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1181) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#121) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date 5/31/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 178. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/27/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-26** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2022-05-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-25** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-05-25** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2022-05-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2022.
- **2022-05-12** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-10** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-04** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-03-28** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-23** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** 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/fa7d504e-9b57-4a15-a25c-0ba0d8c8235a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).