republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020s2/sb-22.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	VOTERS/VOTING: Provides for preparation and counting of absentee and early voting ballots. (gov sig) (Item #5) (EN +$82,800 GF EX See Note)	VOTERS/VOTING: Provides for preparation and counting of absentee and early voting ballots. (gov sig) (Item #5) (EN +$82,800 GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020s2	SB 22	Louisiana SB 22 (2020s2)	bill		enacted	Sharon Hewitt	8	17	3	2020-09-28	2020-10-23	openstates	ocd-bill/7241ec10-44aa-408a-9d03-086d8ecefa3d	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239464	a8eb47c7b7033caf4bcc85acabc8da65ce868689374e7f2299667d4ce213c5eb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 22 (2020s2) — VOTERS/VOTING: Provides for preparation and counting of absentee and early voting ballots. (gov sig) (Item #5) (EN +$82,800 GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB22 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #516, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #555, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. SB22 Act (committee substitute) — source
5. SB22 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. SB22 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #179, Mills, Fred, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. SB22 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#19) — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#154) — 92–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR (#130) — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-10-23 Effective date 10/23/2020.
• 2020-10-23 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 9. executive-signature
• 2020-10-21 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2020-10-21 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-10-20 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-10-19 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2020-10-15 Received from the House with amendments.
• 2020-10-15 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-10-14 Scheduled for floor debate on 10/15/20.
• 2020-10-14 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-10-14 Rules suspended.
• 2020-10-14 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2020-10-14 Reported with amendments (13-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-10-02 Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2020-10-01 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-09-30 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-09-28 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7241ec10-44aa-408a-9d03-086d8ecefa3d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).