---
type: "Bill"
title: "POLITICAL PARTIES: Provides for the qualifications, maintenance, and recognition of political parties"
description: "POLITICAL PARTIES: Provides for the qualifications, maintenance, and recognition of political parties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 420"
citation: "Louisiana HB 420 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Billings"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09a5f028-4499-4e68-80a9-73e018f6f2eb"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248426"
source_hash: "a1c92cad3664fc6004ada59c016f3cd12ed1608129ff1d55b3304bcbb0dcdc14"
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 420 (2025) — POLITICAL PARTIES: Provides for the qualifications, maintenance, and recognition of political parties

## Version chain

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

1. **HB420 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403398)
2. **HB420 Act 84** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422298)
3. **HB420 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406156)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1185, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405498)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1264, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405823)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1299, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406122)
7. **HB420 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419245)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#50) — **90–2** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#448) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beth Billings — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 84. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/29/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2025.
- **2025-04-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/09a5f028-4499-4e68-80a9-73e018f6f2eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).