---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to parish boards of election supervisors. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to parish boards of election supervisors. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 16"
citation: "Louisiana SB 16 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Louie Bernard"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-02-24"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25d7968d-8869-4b4e-b413-f3f2a774505f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243871"
source_hash: "72e1aa5d25b69bb3ce671dd4455996b18a8e8161ef33061076dddb7444f70b5a"
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 16 (2023) — ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to parish boards of election supervisors. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB16 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1300939)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3680, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326834)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3741, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327121)
4. **SB16 Act 235** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332311)
5. **SB16 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316118)
6. **SB16 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330900)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#889) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#271) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#963) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Louie Bernard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-09** Effective date 6/9/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 235. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
- **2023-06-01** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-30** Reported with amendments (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-24** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably (8-0-1). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-10** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-09** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-04-26** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** 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/25d7968d-8869-4b4e-b413-f3f2a774505f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).