republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024s1/hb-17.md

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Bill	ELECTIONS: Provides for closed party primary elections for certain offices (Items #7, #8, and #10) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	ELECTIONS: Provides for closed party primary elections for certain offices (Items #7, #8, and #10) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024s1	HB 17	Louisiana HB 17 (2024s1)	bill		enacted	Julie Emerson	24	17	13	2024-01-15	2024-01-22	openstates	ocd-bill/15c4ed4e-076a-4898-8c56-88806dba48f7	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245514	f1a68ce5e2ea8830a127c5093ba8c5add3804f063c9f2c331de8f6132a283e6f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 17 (2024s1) — ELECTIONS: Provides for closed party primary elections for certain offices (Items #7, #8, and #10) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB17 Original (filed) — source
2. HB17 Act 1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB17 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB17 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #40, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #41, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #45, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. House Committee Amendment, #47, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. House Floor Amendment, #53, Jordan, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
10. House Floor Amendment, #56, Emerson, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. House Floor Amendment, #57, Freeman, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
12. House Floor Amendment, #58, Freeman, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
13. House Floor Amendment, #59, Carter, Wilford, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
14. House Floor Amendment, #60, Jackson, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
15. House Floor Amendment, #61, Newell, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
16. House Floor Amendment, #63, Landry, Mandie, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
17. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #53, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
18. Senate Committee Amendment, #79, S&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
19. Senate Committee Amendment, #81, S&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
20. Senate Floor Amendment, #89, Luneau, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
21. Senate Floor Amendment, #93, Fesi, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
22. Senate Floor Amendment, #94, Fesi, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
23. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #92, Miguez, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
24. HB17 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#18) — 29–9 (pass) · upper
• AMENDMENT # 63 BY LANDRY, M., MOTION TO ADOPT (#13) — 33–69 (fail) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 57 BY FREEMAN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#7) — 35–68 (fail) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 59 BY CARTER, W., MOTION TO ADOPT (#10) — 30–73 (fail) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 94 BY FESI, HB 17 BY EMERSON (#17) — 28–10 (pass) · upper
• AMENDMENT # 53 BY JORDAN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#11) — 32–72 (fail) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 61 BY NEWELL, MOTION TO ADOPT (#9) — 37–67 (fail) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 93 BY FESI, HB 17 BY EMERSON (#16) — 28–9 (pass) · upper
• AMENDMENT # 89 BY LUNEAU, HB 17 BY EMERSON (#15) — 9–28 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#14) — 64–40 (pass) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 58 BY FREEMAN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#8) — 30–73 (fail) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 60 BY JACKSON, MOTION TO ADOPT (#12) — 31–71 (fail) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#24) — 67–36 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Julie Emerson — primary (person)
• Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
• Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
• Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-22 Effective date: 01/01/2026.
• 2024-01-22 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 1. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-01-19 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-01-19 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-01-19 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-01-19 Read by title, roll called, yeas 67, nays 36, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-01-19 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-01-19 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-01-18 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-01-18 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-17 Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 64, nays 40. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-01-16 Scheduled for floor debate on 01/17/2024.
• 2024-01-16 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-01-16 Rules suspended.
• 2024-01-16 Reported with amendments (11-4). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-15 Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/15c4ed4e-076a-4898-8c56-88806dba48f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).