republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-311.md

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Bill	CONSTITUTION/AMENDMENT: (Constitutional Amendment) Prohibits the use of monies from a foreign government or nongovernmental source to fund elections	CONSTITUTION/AMENDMENT: (Constitutional Amendment) Prohibits the use of monies from a foreign government or nongovernmental source to fund elections	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2023	HB 311	Louisiana HB 311 (2023)	bill		enacted	Blake Miguez	10	33	5	2023-03-29	2023-06-12	openstates	ocd-bill/f43f021c-735b-4b50-b74d-abcd8d02ca3d	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244208	28ea8449c3ed9c7fdd6102528ce28dccb399e8dba9ce1dc588669600cab1c699	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 311 (2023) — CONSTITUTION/AMENDMENT: (Constitutional Amendment) Prohibits the use of monies from a foreign government or nongovernmental source to fund elections

Version chain

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

1. HB311 Original (filed) — source
2. HB311 Act 200 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB311 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB311 Re-Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HB311 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2158, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #2494, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. House Committee Amendment, #2576, CL&P, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. House Floor Amendment, #3124, Miguez, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. HB311 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#496) — 70–30 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#998) — 27–12 (pass) · upper
• To consider after the 57th calendar day (#1132) — 79–19 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 vote (#921) — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#821) — 22–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blake Miguez — primary (person)
• Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
• Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
• John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Jonathan Goudeau — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
• Nicholas Muscarello — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
• Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
• Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-12 Effective date: See Act.
• 2023-06-12 Becomes Act No. 200. became-law
• 2023-06-12 Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
• 2023-06-08 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2023-06-08 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2023-06-08 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2023-06-08 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 12 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2023-06-08 Called from the Calendar.
• 2023-06-08 Reconsidered.
• 2023-06-08 Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day.
• 2023-06-07 By a vote of 79 yeas, 19 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 57th calendar day.
• 2023-06-07 Notice Senate approved consideration after the 57th legislative day.
• 2023-06-06 Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day by a vote of 27 yeas and 11 nays.
• 2023-06-05 Notice of reconsideration on the next legislative day.
• 2023-06-05 Read by title. Failed to pass by a vote of 22 yeas and 12 nays.
• 2023-06-05 Rules suspended.
• 2023-06-02 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2023-06-01 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2023-05-31 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-22 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2023-05-17 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 70, nays 30. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2023-05-17 Called from the calendar.
• 2023-05-17 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2023-05-11 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2023.
• 2023-05-10 Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2023-05-09 Reported with amendments (8-5). committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-03 Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
• 2023-05-02 Reported favorably (7-2-1. To be recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-10 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2023-04-03 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
• 2023-03-29 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f43f021c-735b-4b50-b74d-abcd8d02ca3d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).