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Bill VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to counting absentee and early voting ballots. VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to counting absentee and early voting ballots. us/states/la Louisiana Legislature 2020 SB 397 Louisiana SB 397 (2020)
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Louisiana SB 397 (2020) — VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to counting absentee and early voting ballots.

Version chain

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

  1. SB397 Original (filed) — source
  2. House Committee Amendment, #2648, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
  3. House Committee Amendment, #2672, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
  4. House Floor Amendment, #2719, Dwight, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
  5. SB397 Act 354 (committee substitute) — source
  6. SB397 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
  7. SB397 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
  8. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1200, Mills, Fred, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
  9. SB397 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • FINAL PASSAGE (#183) — 320 (pass) · upper
  • FINAL PASSAGE (#571) — 970 (pass) · lower
  • CONCUR (#643) — 330 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Louie Bernard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-06-12 Effective date 6/12/2020.
  • 2020-06-12 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 354. executive-signature
  • 2020-06-01 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. executive-receipt
  • 2020-06-01 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
  • 2020-06-01 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
  • 2020-05-31 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays.
  • 2020-05-29 Received from the House with amendments.
  • 2020-05-29 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
  • 2020-05-27 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/20.
  • 2020-05-27 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
  • 2020-05-27 Rules suspended.
  • 2020-05-27 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
  • 2020-05-27 Reported with amendments (13-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
  • 2020-05-18 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
  • 2020-05-15 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
  • 2020-05-14 Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
  • 2020-05-11 Senate floor amendments read and adopted; read by title and returned to its regular order on third reading and final passage.
  • 2020-05-07 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
  • 2020-03-09 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
  • 2020-02-28 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b83fe1db-d6da-406f-aac0-c2f5e1db4d36. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).