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type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTION OFFENSES: Authorizes political campaign signs to be posted on public school athletic fields and gymnasiums when a political candidate or campaign pays for the posting. (8/1/25)"
description: "ELECTION OFFENSES: Authorizes political campaign signs to be posted on public school athletic fields and gymnasiums when a political candidate or campaign pays for the posting. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 4"
citation: "Louisiana SB 4 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eddie Lambert"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-18"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73ceb5b1-da61-4322-abf3-66439579ef37"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247890"
source_hash: "459e81c9975b5ccbf633dbceff28e32a67c0469cc452bcc280b2f12568f1707b"
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 4 (2025) — ELECTION OFFENSES: Authorizes political campaign signs to be posted on public school athletic fields and gymnasiums when a political candidate or campaign pays for the posting. (8/1/25)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB4 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1394007)
2. **SB4 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424908)
3. **SB4 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405964)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #540, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405839)
5. **SB4 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419800)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#720) — **921** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#39) — **380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Eddie Lambert — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-06-08** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 89. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-03** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-02** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-01** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/2025.
- **2025-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-20** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-23** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-16** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** 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/73ceb5b1-da61-4322-abf3-66439579ef37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).