---
type: "Bill"
title: "REGISTRARS OF VOTERS: Provides for the compensation, evaluation, duties, and removal of registrars of voters (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "REGISTRARS OF VOTERS: Provides for the compensation, evaluation, duties, and removal of registrars of voters (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 502"
citation: "Louisiana HB 502 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rhonda Butler"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 28
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46135262-5795-4b0e-aa25-5d00c2cc34be"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248534"
source_hash: "4c58121993ea122145de19f35b39b52015e0ba8edd58fc3aaa19350ee64276c6"
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 502 (2025) — REGISTRARS OF VOTERS: Provides for the compensation, evaluation, duties, and removal of registrars of voters (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB502 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404071)
2. **HB502 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425989)
3. **HB502 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408075)
4. **HB502 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417682)
5. **HB502 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416010)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1514, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407441)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1604, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408019)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2971, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415314)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #3131, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415962)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #3287, Butler, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416901)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2991, Kleinpeter, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422451)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3133, Jenkins, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423220)
13. **HB502 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424433)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#785) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1132) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#593) — **88–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rhonda Butler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 06/20/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 371. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and recommitted to the Committee on Finance. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 5. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-22** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2025.
- **2025-05-21** Notice given.
- **2025-05-21** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025.
- **2025-05-20** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Reported with amendments (18-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-04-23** Reported with amendments (13-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/46135262-5795-4b0e-aa25-5d00c2cc34be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).