---
type: "Bill"
title: "VOTING/REGISTRATION: Provides for Louisiana High School Seniors Voter Registration Day"
description: "VOTING/REGISTRATION: Provides for Louisiana High School Seniors Voter Registration Day"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 316"
citation: "Louisiana HB 316 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tammy Phelps"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a8c433c5-ae34-4ee1-ad3a-e235a3812523"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244213"
source_hash: "dd5b53446c57070f172820197ce24d0f84d70b1b85c8909ec7dff5ae18371262"
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 316 (2023) — VOTING/REGISTRATION: Provides for Louisiana High School Seniors Voter Registration Day

## Version chain

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

1. **HB316 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307587)
2. **HB316 Act 79** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331596)
3. **HB316 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314291)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1444, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313628)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1524, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314131)
6. **HB316 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325794)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#139) — **79–12** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#428) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tammy Phelps — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 79. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-25** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-24** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-24** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 79, nays 12. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-04-26** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/2023.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Reported with amendments (7-5). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a8c433c5-ae34-4ee1-ad3a-e235a3812523`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).