---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTIONS/ABSENTEE VOTE: Provides relative to the preparation, verification, tabulation, and counting of absentee by mail and early voting ballots"
description: "ELECTIONS/ABSENTEE VOTE: Provides relative to the preparation, verification, tabulation, and counting of absentee by mail and early voting ballots"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 962"
citation: "Louisiana HB 962 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Billings"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-04-04"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62f2ad98-fa1c-447d-8837-db24cd3120db"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247215"
source_hash: "3d409774f9687d4ba5b13c90b04887ad4d72bf1a5f6416d56e4f30c55e5b115b"
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 962 (2024) — ELECTIONS/ABSENTEE VOTE: Provides relative to the preparation, verification, tabulation, and counting of absentee by mail and early voting ballots

## Version chain

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

1. **HB962 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362021)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #5210, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379087)
3. **HB962 Act 754** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382784)
4. **HB962 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362052)
5. **HB962 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364604)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2744, Billings, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364409)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3563, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374504)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3621, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374816)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3653, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374924)
10. **HB962 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381313)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1161) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1715) — **73–24** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1570) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#409) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1427) — **28–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beth Billings — 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. 754. `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** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-05-31** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-05-31** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 28 yeas and 10 nays.
- **2024-05-31** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 73, nays 24. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2024-05-31** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-31** Conference committee report received.
- **2024-05-31** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2024-05-30** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2024-05-29** Senate conference committee members appointed: Fields, Reese, and Talbot.
- **2024-05-29** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2024-05-29** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2024-05-29** House conferees appointed: Billings, Beaullieu, and Thomas.
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2024-05-23** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-15** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-04** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 499 reported by the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs (14-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/62f2ad98-fa1c-447d-8837-db24cd3120db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).