---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Prohibits an elected official who has retired or resigned from office from filling the vacancy his retirement or resignation created"
description: "ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Prohibits an elected official who has retired or resigned from office from filling the vacancy his retirement or resignation created"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 304"
citation: "Louisiana HB 304 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Orgeron"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-28"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/934ba696-8489-467c-a058-dd908882d672"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244194"
source_hash: "905dc24cfb7d7e2efc4d473dfc3e496520eba2cc4554ec34f04d286fdfdf460f"
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 304 (2023) — ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Prohibits an elected official who has retired or resigned from office from filling the vacancy his retirement or resignation created

## Version chain

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

1. **HB304 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307243)
2. **HB304 Act 119** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331997)
3. **HB304 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317933)
4. **HB304 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327012)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#353) — **90–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#537) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joseph Orgeron — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 119. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-29** 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`
- **2023-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-25** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2023.
- **2023-05-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** Reported favorably (9-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/934ba696-8489-467c-a058-dd908882d672`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).