---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTION CODE: Makes revisions to the Louisiana Election Code"
description: "ELECTION CODE: Makes revisions to the Louisiana Election Code"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 496"
citation: "Louisiana HB 496 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Stefanski"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f463e9b9-fa87-4bea-917d-2a79d7701f81"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244463"
source_hash: "f6763c2ab418136607971e64f175b3fbe8c073857cde8ed5c3ecc5588cbfc104"
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 496 (2023) — ELECTION CODE: Makes revisions to the Louisiana Election Code

## Version chain

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

1. **HB496 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309437)
2. **HB496 Act 91** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331613)
3. **HB496 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315916)
4. **HB496 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318791)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1185, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311884)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1477, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315736)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2012, Stefanski, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317194)
8. **HB496 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326546)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#472) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#211) — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John Stefanski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 91. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-18** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-17** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-04** 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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-25** Reported with amendments (9-0-1). `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.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f463e9b9-fa87-4bea-917d-2a79d7701f81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).