---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTIONS: Provides for restitution as part of the penalties for a person convicted of bribery of voters"
description: "ELECTIONS: Provides for restitution as part of the penalties for a person convicted of bribery of voters"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 328"
citation: "Louisiana HB 328 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Morris"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-28"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da3e9c1b-476d-45dc-af8c-c914801cb0c3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236104"
source_hash: "2ee1005781c0a3bc8cdab4f4dede1423c247dde4d79c4921f024e391d5d8066f"
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 328 (2019) — ELECTIONS: Provides for restitution as part of the penalties for a person convicted of bribery of voters

## Version chain

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

1. **HB328 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120565)
2. **HB328 Act 399** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144669)
3. **HB328 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127096)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1514, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127050)
5. **HB328 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142152)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#124) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#875) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jay Morris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 399. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/19.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-24** Reported with amendments (7-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da3e9c1b-476d-45dc-af8c-c914801cb0c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).