---
type: "Bill"
title: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to voter registration. (1/1/25)"
description: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to voter registration. (1/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 436"
citation: "Louisiana SB 436 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael \"Big Mike\" Fesi"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33c58f58-4cd0-47b7-9c25-52e5fd829ebf"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247024"
source_hash: "e2dee98752824886987721e8bc57ce9b859f22176180844a89a3d8dfa6daae69"
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 436 (2024) — VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to voter registration. (1/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB436 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360768)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4308, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372591)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4358, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372842)
4. **SB436 Act 500** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382204)
5. **SB436 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366807)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2038, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366144)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2134, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366621)
8. **SB436 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379131)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#1208) — **28–8** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#385) — **28–10** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1265) — **68–26** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#1209) — **11–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — primary (person)
- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date 1/1/2025.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 500. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 28 yeas and 8 nays.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 68, nays 26. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-13** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-08** Reported with amendments (7-2). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-23** Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 10 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-22** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-04-17** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33c58f58-4cd0-47b7-9c25-52e5fd829ebf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).