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type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTION DAYS: Provides for a special election for submission of proposed constitutional amendments to the electors. (gov sig) (EN +$2,000,000 GF EX See Note)"
description: "ELECTION DAYS: Provides for a special election for submission of proposed constitutional amendments to the electors. (gov sig) (EN +$2,000,000 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 149"
citation: "Louisiana SB 149 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Harris"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ecd996a3-429b-4882-a313-3ec3067275dd"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240318"
source_hash: "6c30d4183ae5e17e0fe95e41a0de0d771c016fa65ccab5c3baf53afe65f8a201"
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 SB 149 (2021) — ELECTION DAYS: Provides for a special election for submission of proposed constitutional amendments to the electors. (gov sig) (EN +$2,000,000 GF EX See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB149 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210738)
2. **SB149 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236233)
3. **SB149 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213943)
4. **SB149 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217348)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1038, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217157)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1041, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217159)
7. **SB149 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231798)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#170) — **370** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#973) — **921** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jimmy Harris — primary (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-28** Effective date 6/28/2021.
- **2021-06-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 461. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-06** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2021-06-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2021.
- **2021-05-26** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-24** Reported favorably (16-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-19** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2021-05-18** Reported favorably (11-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-26** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-19** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2021-04-14** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ecd996a3-429b-4882-a313-3ec3067275dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).