---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTION OFFENSES: Prohibits betting or wagering on elections. (8/1/25)"
description: "ELECTION OFFENSES: Prohibits betting or wagering on elections. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 90"
citation: "Louisiana SB 90 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/876ba850-c707-4c62-a74e-99ace6384fad"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248315"
source_hash: "038315d4b1a684f702ab283eab8cf4e90477ee4b1b7fa5df09aae57df1736593"
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 90 (2025) — ELECTION OFFENSES: Prohibits betting or wagering on elections. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB90 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402596)
2. **SB90 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424907)
3. **SB90 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410181)
4. **SB90 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420445)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#163) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#749) — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rick Edmonds — primary (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 4. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-04** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-03** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-02** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.
- **2025-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-20** Reported favorably (10-2). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-06** Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** 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/876ba850-c707-4c62-a74e-99ace6384fad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).