---
type: "Bill"
title: "VOTING/REGISTRATION: Provides relative voter registration applications collected through registration drives"
description: "VOTING/REGISTRATION: Provides relative voter registration applications collected through registration drives"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 506"
citation: "Louisiana HB 506 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Polly Thomas"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dee4d13a-268e-441e-9b2d-30b2e9c09360"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246264"
source_hash: "263f994f488d5d9cd332861038bd80faa7c6ebf6bd6d60b41deb0e56270aff4c"
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 506 (2024) — VOTING/REGISTRATION: Provides relative voter registration applications collected through registration drives

## Version chain

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

1. **HB506 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351345)
2. **HB506 Act 701** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382722)
3. **HB506 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356928)
4. **HB506 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359316)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1124, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355355)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1596, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356854)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1994, Miller, D., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359269)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1996, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359274)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4005, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377145)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4066, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377513)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4334, Kleinpeter, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379697)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4359, Jackson-Andrews, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380003)
13. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #4231, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378567)
14. **HB506 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380751)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#133) — **73–27** (pass) · lower
- SUSPEND THE RULES (#132) — **38–54** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1661) — **70–19** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1309) — **27–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Polly Thomas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 701. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-30** Read by title, roll called, yeas 70, nays 19, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/30/2024.
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-23** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-22** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-27** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 27. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/27/2024.
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-21** Reported with amendments (8-6). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dee4d13a-268e-441e-9b2d-30b2e9c09360`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).