republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-449.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to the rights of voters with disabilities (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to the rights of voters with disabilities (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 449"
citation: "Louisiana HB 449 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Willard"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49bd1114-472c-4b03-9e0a-278a39af5131"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244405"
source_hash: "571a4448146a1258641a809cca62880491107f517da7152b8ac04ff80f535894"
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 HB 449 (2023) — VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to the rights of voters with disabilities (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB449 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309084)
2. **HB449 Act 277** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332439)
3. **HB449 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320904)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2279, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318502)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2656, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320711)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2693, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320871)
7. **HB449 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330363)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#860) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#639) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Matthew Willard — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 06/09/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 277. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-03** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-06-03** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2023-06-01** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-05-31** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-24** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2023.
- **2023-05-23** Read by title, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-22** Reported favorably (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-05-10** Reported with amendments (9-0-1). `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.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49bd1114-472c-4b03-9e0a-278a39af5131`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).