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type: "Bill"
title: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to marking absentee by mail ballots. (8/1/24)"
description: "VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to marking absentee by mail ballots. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 155"
citation: "Louisiana SB 155 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caleb Kleinpeter"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0aa42cf-8248-469e-99a2-10e3d2452e40"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246170"
source_hash: "63b03a21373e98e7d1a48fefbe3910452dcf68ac7a0aa3fe523b9c7918b75be6"
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 SB 155 (2024) — VOTERS/VOTING: Provides relative to marking absentee by mail ballots. (8/1/24)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB155 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350866)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4154, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371590)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4260, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372263)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #4547, Thomas, Polly, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373824)
5. **SB155 Act 302** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380772)
6. **SB155 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354256)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #655, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353860)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #741, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354211)
9. **SB155 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377924)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#51) — **2711** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1193) — **6923** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#1086) — **269** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Caleb Kleinpeter — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-05-28** Effective date: See Act.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 302. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-23** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 26 yeas and 9 nays.
- **2024-05-21** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-21** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 69, nays 23. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2024.
- **2024-05-09** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-07** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-19** Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 11 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-13** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0aa42cf-8248-469e-99a2-10e3d2452e40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).