republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-581.md

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Bill	ELECTIONS: Provides requirements and restrictions on the ability to witness election documents	ELECTIONS: Provides requirements and restrictions on the ability to witness election documents	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 581	Louisiana HB 581 (2024)	bill		enacted	Polly Thomas	9	22	5	2024-03-01	2024-06-19	openstates	ocd-bill/444547ec-b1ed-4173-9cd0-16d88b1a1fbf	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246339	d977822ae1a3d1898bc923970130452240af92ae104f932b49ebff4654b6ca65	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 581 (2024) — ELECTIONS: Provides requirements and restrictions on the ability to witness election documents

Version chain

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

1. HB581 Original (filed) — source
2. HB581 Act 712 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB581 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1125, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1600, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #3895, S&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #4067, S&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #4233, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. HB581 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• APPROPRIATIONS (#141) — 29–73 (fail) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1662) — 71–22 (pass) · lower
• SUSPEND THE RULES (#140) — 32–67 (fail) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1310) — 27–9 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#142) — 76–29 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Polly Thomas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-19 Effective date: 07/01/2025.
• 2024-06-19 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 712. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-06-04 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-06-02 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-31 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-30 Read by title, roll called, yeas 71, nays 22, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-05-30 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/30/2024.
• 2024-05-30 Rules suspended.
• 2024-05-30 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-29 Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-28 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-23 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-22 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-03 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-02 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-03-27 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 76, nays 29. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-03-25 Scheduled for floor debate on 03/27/2024.
• 2024-03-25 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-03-21 Reported with amendments (8-6). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/444547ec-b1ed-4173-9cd0-16d88b1a1fbf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).