republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-342.md

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Bill	ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Provides relative to qualifying fees and nominating petitions for certain candidates (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)	ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Provides relative to qualifying fees and nominating petitions for certain candidates (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 342	Louisiana HB 342 (2025)	bill		enacted	Mike Bayham	11	24	3	2025-04-03	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/fef6ec00-5ca9-4996-8969-29e08ff31e19	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248307	5eb278cf52da195cd47bcd9903c72d39ae272ef3c8279f0d5f4ed1ce659497a7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 342 (2025) — ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Provides relative to qualifying fees and nominating petitions for certain candidates (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB342 Original (filed) — source
2. HB342 Act 495 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB342 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB342 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1393, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1572, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #2677, Bayham, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #2023, S&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #2849, S&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2983, Kleinpeter, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. HB342 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#999) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#704) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#358) — 89–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mike Bayham — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-07-01 Effective date: 08/01/2025.
• 2025-07-01 Becomes Act No. 495 without the Governor's signature. became-law
• 2025-06-10 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-10 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-09 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-09 Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
• 2025-06-08 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
• 2025-06-08 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-08 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-06-04 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-06-04 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-19 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-13 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 2. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-13 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-05-12 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2025.
• 2025-05-12 Notice given.
• 2025-04-30 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-04-28 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2025.
• 2025-04-24 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-04-23 Reported with amendments (9-5). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fef6ec00-5ca9-4996-8969-29e08ff31e19. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).