---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTIONS: Requires the secretary of state to prepare and publish certain information concerning changes in election law (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "ELECTIONS: Requires the secretary of state to prepare and publish certain information concerning changes in election law (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 405"
citation: "Louisiana HB 405 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Willard"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3403df34-260b-419b-81b4-febc1cd24f49"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248411"
source_hash: "bf6659f35985527edbe827a76b6fde7a60aab320896542eed49177724d2996b6"
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 405 (2025) — ELECTIONS: Requires the secretary of state to prepare and publish certain information concerning changes in election law (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB405 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403285)
2. **HB405 Act 499** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427690)
3. **HB405 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415078)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2835, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414541)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2918, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415030)
6. **HB405 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422884)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#486) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#712) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Matthew Willard — primary (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Landry Jr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Effective date: 06/30/2025.
- **2025-07-01** Becomes Act No. 499 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
- **2025-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3403df34-260b-419b-81b4-febc1cd24f49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).