---
type: "Bill"
title: "REGISTRARS OF VOTERS: Provides relative to the number of employees in the registrar of voters office in certain parishes (EN +$522,132 GF EX See Note)"
description: "REGISTRARS OF VOTERS: Provides relative to the number of employees in the registrar of voters office in certain parishes (EN +$522,132 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 89"
citation: "Louisiana HB 89 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Bagley"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-15"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fb0dd04-b04c-4e5b-bbd6-83e35738a7fc"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245633"
source_hash: "3df11283eb56cf288b7b4cd4126f4344e2394a7939a6b9686c8368759e30cb8b"
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 89 (2024) — REGISTRARS OF VOTERS: Provides relative to the number of employees in the registrar of voters office in certain parishes (EN +$522,132 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB89 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1343449)
2. **HB89 Act 596** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382325)
3. **HB89 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359052)
4. **HB89 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371158)
5. **HB89 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369918)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3780, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369477)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #3872, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369857)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3983, Bagley, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370438)
9. **HB89 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381306)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#819) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1412) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Larry Bagley — primary (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 596. `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.
- **2024-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-31** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-31** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-28** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2024-05-13** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-01** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/2024.
- **2024-04-30** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2024-03-27** Reported favorably (10-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/16/2024.
- **2024-02-15** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3fb0dd04-b04c-4e5b-bbd6-83e35738a7fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).