---
type: "Bill"
title: "EMERGENCY POWERS: Provides relative to voting and the holding of elections impaired as the result of a declared emergency or disaster. (8/1/22)"
description: "EMERGENCY POWERS: Provides relative to voting and the holding of elections impaired as the result of a declared emergency or disaster. (8/1/22)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 258"
citation: "Louisiana SB 258 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Hewitt"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9fae716a-2950-4fdf-8506-ee658f955e4d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242275"
source_hash: "11b5fc60418bf4968fe2e07c3f1a51f1ed1317ece1f8c10dd5caf0fdf3c1991d"
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 258 (2022) — EMERGENCY POWERS: Provides relative to voting and the holding of elections impaired as the result of a declared emergency or disaster. (8/1/22)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB258 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1256159)
2. **SB258 Act 286** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1288763)
3. **SB258 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261570)
4. **SB258 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283532)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#129) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1173) — **67–31** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-06** Effective date 8/1/2022.
- **2022-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 286. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/27/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-26** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2022-05-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 31. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2022.
- **2022-05-12** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-10** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-04** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-03-28** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-23** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** 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/9fae716a-2950-4fdf-8506-ee658f955e4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).