republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-420.md

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Bill	POLITICAL PARTIES: Provides for the qualifications, maintenance, and recognition of political parties	POLITICAL PARTIES: Provides for the qualifications, maintenance, and recognition of political parties	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 420	Louisiana HB 420 (2025)	bill		enacted	Beth Billings	7	19	2	2025-04-03	2025-06-04	openstates	ocd-bill/09a5f028-4499-4e68-80a9-73e018f6f2eb	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248426	a1c92cad3664fc6004ada59c016f3cd12ed1608129ff1d55b3304bcbb0dcdc14	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 420 (2025) — POLITICAL PARTIES: Provides for the qualifications, maintenance, and recognition of political parties

Version chain

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

1. HB420 Original (filed) — source
2. HB420 Act 84 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB420 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1185, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1264, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1299, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. HB420 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#50) — 90–2 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#448) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Beth Billings — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-04 Effective date: 08/01/2025.
• 2025-06-04 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 84. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-05-30 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-01 Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/29/2025.
• 2025-05-29 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-05-29 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2025-05-28 Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-05-20 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-05-19 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2025-05-14 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-29 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-28 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-04-28 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-04-24 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2025.
• 2025-04-22 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-04-16 Reported with amendments (12-0). 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/09a5f028-4499-4e68-80a9-73e018f6f2eb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).