---
type: "Bill"
title: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to voting. (8/1/24)"
description: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to voting. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 218"
citation: "Louisiana SB 218 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caleb Kleinpeter"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24c71918-2cec-4b07-9f13-ff9eaa1ab0a5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246374"
source_hash: "2d536c4fc05377d5cfbb93be75d4d87511d51582983b40903de15ef2e358f601"
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 218 (2024) — VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to voting. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB218 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351949)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4235, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372088)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4272, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372543)
4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3206, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372598)
5. **SB218 Act 317** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380789)
6. **SB218 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354252)
7. **SB218 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359200)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #662, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353883)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #743, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354213)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1230, Seabaugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358467)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #947, Jenkins, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355756)
12. **SB218 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377927)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#169) — **26–10** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1196) — **68–29** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 947 BY JENKINS, SB 218 BY KLEINPETER (#167) — **10–26** (fail) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 1230 BY SEABAUGH, SB 218 BY KLEINPETER (#168) — **25–11** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#1089) — **25–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Caleb Kleinpeter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date: See Act.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 317. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-23** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 25 yeas and 10 nays.
- **2024-05-21** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 68, nays 29. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2024.
- **2024-05-09** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-08** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-07** Reported with amendments (10-2). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-27** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 10 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-03-20** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-03-18** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-13** Reported with amendments. `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`
- **2024-03-01** 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/24c71918-2cec-4b07-9f13-ff9eaa1ab0a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).