---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTIONS/COMMISSIONERS: Authorizes certain military members stationed in Louisiana to serve as commissioners"
description: "ELECTIONS/COMMISSIONERS: Authorizes certain military members stationed in Louisiana to serve as commissioners"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 216"
citation: "Louisiana HB 216 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodie Horton"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-27"
last_action: "2023-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/831ab2a0-dc6b-48ca-bb4b-d1b418558c5c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244081"
source_hash: "a666f04f5da572c4707e2830af4dad0afc350601c7d811cb9b260eccfe34b22d"
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 216 (2023) — ELECTIONS/COMMISSIONERS: Authorizes certain military members stationed in Louisiana to serve as commissioners

## Version chain

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

1. **HB216 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305764)
2. **HB216 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328139)
3. **HB216 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315353)
4. **HB216 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325274)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#203) — **96–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#396) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dodie Horton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-30** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 18. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-10** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/2023.
- **2023-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-25** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/831ab2a0-dc6b-48ca-bb4b-d1b418558c5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).