republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2022/hb-188.md

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Bill	ELECTION OFFENSES: Provides relative to prohibitions and requirements for digital material of a political nature	ELECTION OFFENSES: Provides relative to prohibitions and requirements for digital material of a political nature	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2022	HB 188	Louisiana HB 188 (2022)	bill		enacted	Debbie Villio	10	20	2	2022-02-24	2022-05-17	openstates	ocd-bill/0d780636-0352-48c1-9d8d-21cb4712747b	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241757	d31b4b5e8229254ad64e1c4efe740d80e52488057b8d6274c58915f33bd16a4b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 188 (2022) — ELECTION OFFENSES: Provides relative to prohibitions and requirements for digital material of a political nature

Version chain

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

1. HB188 Original (filed) — source
2. HB188 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB188 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB188 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1967, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2129, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #2202, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #2458, Stefanski, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1566, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. HB188 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#259) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#544) — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Debbie Villio — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-05-17 Effective date: 05/17/2022.
• 2022-05-17 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 39. executive-signature
• 2022-05-13 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2022-05-12 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2022-05-12 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2022-05-11 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2022-05-11 Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2022-05-10 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2022-05-09 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2022-05-04 Reported favorably.
• 2022-04-14 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2022-04-13 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2022-04-12 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2022-04-07 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/12/2022.
• 2022-04-07 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2022-04-06 Reported with amendments (12-0).
• 2022-03-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2022-02-25 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/25/2022.
• 2022-02-24 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2022-02-24 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0d780636-0352-48c1-9d8d-21cb4712747b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).