---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTIONS: Authorizes the payment of additional compensation to certain election officials for elections held within a certain period following a gubernatorially declared emergency (Item #5) (EN +$6,334,500 GF EX See Note)"
description: "ELECTIONS: Authorizes the payment of additional compensation to certain election officials for elections held within a certain period following a gubernatorially declared emergency (Item #5) (EN +$6,334,500 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020s2"
identifier: "HB 59"
citation: "Louisiana HB 59 (2020s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beau Beaullieu"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-09-30"
last_action: "2020-10-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03bda4fe-3d7c-400e-bc4a-3e0b13b69dd9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239534"
source_hash: "66c80559b27aef022d07f020290a9bb1192f60194c8756d5ca9e0ec9e1631268"
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 59 (2020s2) — ELECTIONS: Authorizes the payment of additional compensation to certain election officials for elections held within a certain period following a gubernatorially declared emergency (Item #5) (EN +$6,334,500 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB59 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189866)
2. **HB59 Act 11** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1194927)
3. **HB59 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191449)
4. **HB59 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1192313)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #335, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190999)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #403, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191438)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #430, Beaullieu, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191647)
8. **HB59 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1194189)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#89) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#196) — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#195) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beau Beaullieu — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-10-27** Effective date: 10/27/2020.
- **2020-10-27** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 11. `executive-signature`
- **2020-10-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-10-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-10-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-10-22** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-10-22** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-10-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-10-21** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-10-13** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-10-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-10-13** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2020-10-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/13/20.
- **2020-10-12** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-10-07** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2020-09-30** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/03bda4fe-3d7c-400e-bc4a-3e0b13b69dd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).