republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-258.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to early or absentee by mail voting and the passing of that voter before election day. (8/1/24)	ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to early or absentee by mail voting and the passing of that voter before election day. (8/1/24)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 258	Louisiana SB 258 (2024)	bill		enacted	Michael "Big Mike" Fesi	4	18	2	2024-03-01	2024-05-28	openstates	ocd-bill/58884646-44e2-438d-89ac-05897c060d32	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246506	5022656ad34f51056b0f4958704dd3316738ad39df99fec4a22a867e2a9bd56a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 258 (2024) — ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to early or absentee by mail voting and the passing of that voter before election day. (8/1/24)

Version chain

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

1. SB258 Original (filed) — source
2. SB258 Act 325 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB258 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. SB258 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#65) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1228) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — primary (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-28 Effective date 8/1/2024.
• 2024-05-28 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 325. 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.
• 2024-05-22 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2024-05-21 Received from the House without amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-21 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2024.
• 2024-05-13 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-05-09 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-05-08 Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-25 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-03-20 Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-03-18 Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-03-13 Reported favorably. 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
• 2024-03-01 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; origin ocd-bill/58884646-44e2-438d-89ac-05897c060d32. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).