republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-476.md

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Bill	ELECTIONS/ABSENTEE VOTE: Provides for the delivery of absentee ballots by a person other than the voter	ELECTIONS/ABSENTEE VOTE: Provides for the delivery of absentee ballots by a person other than the voter	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 476	Louisiana HB 476 (2024)	bill		enacted	Josh Carlson	6	19	3	2024-02-29	2024-05-28	openstates	ocd-bill/e47b67b9-1992-4384-98b8-8d8047c65b04	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246216	c1dddc218445308f977f976b845f82de094770f5375d87d722c5fa0d87598b77	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 476 (2024) — ELECTIONS/ABSENTEE VOTE: Provides for the delivery of absentee ballots by a person other than the voter

Version chain

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

1. HB476 Original (filed) — source
2. HB476 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB476 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1711, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1813, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. HB476 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SUSPEND THE RULES (#204) — 30–68 (fail) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#920) — 28–11 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#205) — 73–31 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Josh Carlson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-28 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-05-28 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 380. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-22 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-20 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-20 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-20 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-16 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-07 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-06 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-01 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-08 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-03 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 31. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-02 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/03/2024.
• 2024-03-27 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-03-26 Reported with amendments (6-5). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e47b67b9-1992-4384-98b8-8d8047c65b04. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).