---
type: "Bill"
title: "SECRETARY OF STATE: Provides relative to the secretary of state's office"
description: "SECRETARY OF STATE: Provides relative to the secretary of state's office"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 297"
citation: "Louisiana HB 297 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frankie Howard"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-28"
last_action: "2019-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebfb1e65-bff7-4f0b-ae4b-f2b01f88ec3d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236059"
source_hash: "294f05945cf321558e8dcdb457b2ab7de107afd678137ed2bf2da32d62ddc98a"
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 297 (2019) — SECRETARY OF STATE: Provides relative to the secretary of state's office

## Version chain

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

1. **HB297 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120365)
2. **HB297 Act 19** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139041)
3. **HB297 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124970)
4. **HB297 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130149)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1093, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124370)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1165, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124926)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1827, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129102)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #708, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125208)
9. **HB297 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134246)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#339) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#127) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Frankie Howard — primary (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-28** Effective date: 05/28/2019.
- **2019-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 19. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-16** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-08** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-01** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-01** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/19.
- **2019-04-24** Notice given.
- **2019-04-24** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-04-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/19.
- **2019-04-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-16** Reported with amendments (17-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ebfb1e65-bff7-4f0b-ae4b-f2b01f88ec3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).