---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC OFFICIALS: Provides relative to the mandatory age limitation for certain elected officials (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)"
description: "PUBLIC OFFICIALS: Provides relative to the mandatory age limitation for certain elected officials (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 144"
citation: "Louisiana HB 144 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kyle M. Green , Jr."]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-24"
last_action: "2020-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6023c8f-779b-4837-b0a5-dedefda7feb7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237620"
source_hash: "d63efd9a7dec2c5d90e740cf362b867e1e9b35587f93095d6be06dbd1601a9c2"
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 144 (2020) — PUBLIC OFFICIALS: Provides relative to the mandatory age limitation for certain elected officials (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB144 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1158008)
2. **HB144 Act 23** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180221)
3. **HB144 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170125)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1159, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165581)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1595, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170071)
6. **HB144 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175276)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#299) — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#106) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — primary (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-04** Effective date: 06/04/2020.
- **2020-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 23. `executive-signature`
- **2020-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-21** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-19** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
- **2020-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e6023c8f-779b-4837-b0a5-dedefda7feb7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).