---
type: "Bill"
title: "VOTING/MACHINES: Provides for the procurement of voting systems (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "VOTING/MACHINES: Provides for the procurement of voting systems (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 577"
citation: "Louisiana HB 577 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daryl Deshotel"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58f3c087-d7fb-41d6-ad43-e1a94590a6e3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248623"
source_hash: "ad33d68211ec4dd99d21cea44740713bdee8fc0712462b448ec2b215e7480a37"
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 577 (2025) — VOTING/MACHINES: Provides for the procurement of voting systems (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB577 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404387)
2. **HB577 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425139)
3. **HB577 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410058)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1894, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409387)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1972, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409979)
6. **HB577 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420803)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#543) — **37–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#256) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Daryl Deshotel — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 208. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2025.
- **2025-04-30** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Reported with amendments (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58f3c087-d7fb-41d6-ad43-e1a94590a6e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).