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Bill	ELECTIONS/ABSENTEE VOTE: Provides relative to the preparation, verification, tabulation, and counting of absentee by mail and early voting ballots	ELECTIONS/ABSENTEE VOTE: Provides relative to the preparation, verification, tabulation, and counting of absentee by mail and early voting ballots	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 962	Louisiana HB 962 (2024)	bill		enacted	Beth Billings	10	30	5	2024-04-04	2024-06-19	openstates	ocd-bill/62f2ad98-fa1c-447d-8837-db24cd3120db	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247215	3d409774f9687d4ba5b13c90b04887ad4d72bf1a5f6416d56e4f30c55e5b115b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 962 (2024) — ELECTIONS/ABSENTEE VOTE: Provides relative to the preparation, verification, tabulation, and counting of absentee by mail and early voting ballots

Version chain

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

1. HB962 Original (filed) — source
2. Conference Committee Report, #5210, House Adopted, Senate Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. HB962 Act 754 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB962 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HB962 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Amendment, #2744, Billings, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #3563, S&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #3621, S&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #3653, S&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. HB962 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#1161) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1715) — 73–24 (pass) · lower
• REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1570) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#409) — 101–0 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT (#1427) — 28–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Beth Billings — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-19 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-06-19 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 754. 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.
• 2024-06-02 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-31 Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
• 2024-05-31 Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
• 2024-05-31 Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 28 yeas and 10 nays.
• 2024-05-31 Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 73, nays 24. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
• 2024-05-31 Rules suspended.
• 2024-05-31 Conference committee report received.
• 2024-05-31 Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
• 2024-05-30 Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
• 2024-05-29 Senate conference committee members appointed: Fields, Reese, and Talbot.
• 2024-05-29 Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
• 2024-05-29 Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
• 2024-05-29 House conferees appointed: Billings, Beaullieu, and Thomas.
• 2024-05-29 Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
• 2024-05-23 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
• 2024-05-23 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-23 Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-20 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-16 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-15 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-16 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-15 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-10 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-09 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
• 2024-04-08 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-04 Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 499 reported by the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs (14-0).

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/62f2ad98-fa1c-447d-8837-db24cd3120db. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).