---
type: "Bill"
title: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to ranked-choice voting and instant runoff voting. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to ranked-choice voting and instant runoff voting. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 101"
citation: "Louisiana SB 101 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Miguez"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7efbb248-b3e8-4bc6-b20d-ca71bb2ec4b1"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245982"
source_hash: "1c7655dae8bc7b4f03b49f2e1f77710b42cdb028410bf4a1011cf5d974bd22dc"
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 101 (2024) — VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to ranked-choice voting and instant runoff voting. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB101 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349264)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3871, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369807)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3979, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370515)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #4038, Beaullieu, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370924)
5. **SB101 Act 291** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380740)
6. **SB101 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354154)
7. **SB101 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376446)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#49) — **29–9** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1106) — **73–23** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#965) — **29–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blake Miguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date 5/28/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 291. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-21** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 29 yeas and 8 nays.
- **2024-05-15** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 23. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2024.
- **2024-05-06** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-30** Reported with amendments (8-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-19** Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 9 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-13** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** 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/7efbb248-b3e8-4bc6-b20d-ca71bb2ec4b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).