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Bill	ELECTIONS: Authorizes the payment of additional compensation to certain election officials for elections held within a certain period following a gubernatorially declared emergency (Item #5) (EN +$6,334,500 GF EX See Note)	ELECTIONS: Authorizes the payment of additional compensation to certain election officials for elections held within a certain period following a gubernatorially declared emergency (Item #5) (EN +$6,334,500 GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020s2	HB 59	Louisiana HB 59 (2020s2)	bill		enacted	Beau Beaullieu	8	16	3	2020-09-30	2020-10-27	openstates	ocd-bill/03bda4fe-3d7c-400e-bc4a-3e0b13b69dd9	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239534	66c80559b27aef022d07f020290a9bb1192f60194c8756d5ca9e0ec9e1631268	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 59 (2020s2) — ELECTIONS: Authorizes the payment of additional compensation to certain election officials for elections held within a certain period following a gubernatorially declared emergency (Item #5) (EN +$6,334,500 GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB59 Original (filed) — source
2. HB59 Act 11 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB59 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB59 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #335, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #403, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #430, Beaullieu, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. HB59 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#89) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#196) — 29–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#195) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Beau Beaullieu — primary (person)
• Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
• Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
• Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
• Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
• Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
• Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
• Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
• Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
• Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
• Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-10-27 Effective date: 10/27/2020.
• 2020-10-27 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 11. executive-signature
• 2020-10-23 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2020-10-23 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-10-22 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-10-22 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2020-10-22 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-10-21 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-10-21 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-10-13 Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2020-10-13 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-10-13 Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
• 2020-10-12 Scheduled for floor debate on 10/13/20.
• 2020-10-12 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-10-07 Reported with amendments (13-0).
• 2020-09-30 Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/03bda4fe-3d7c-400e-bc4a-3e0b13b69dd9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).