---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to early or absentee by mail voting and the passing of that voter before election day. (8/1/24)"
description: "ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to early or absentee by mail voting and the passing of that voter before election day. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 258"
citation: "Louisiana SB 258 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael \"Big Mike\" Fesi"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58884646-44e2-438d-89ac-05897c060d32"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246506"
source_hash: "5022656ad34f51056b0f4958704dd3316738ad39df99fec4a22a867e2a9bd56a"
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 258 (2024) — ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to early or absentee by mail voting and the passing of that voter before election day. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB258 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352489)
2. **SB258 Act 325** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380797)
3. **SB258 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354195)
4. **SB258 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377260)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#65) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1228) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — primary (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 325. `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.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2024.
- **2024-05-13** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 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`
- **2024-03-01** 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/58884646-44e2-438d-89ac-05897c060d32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).