ELECTIONS/COMMISSIONERS: Provides relative to qualifications of early voting election commissioners (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
This bill updates Louisiana law to disqualify individuals who must register as sex offenders or child predators from serving as early voting election commissioners. The change directly affects the pool of eligible volunteers who help manage early voting sites by adding a new legal restriction to their qualifications. It does not alter the duties of commissioners or the voting process itself, but rather ensures that people with specific criminal registration requirements cannot hold this specific volunteer role. The legislation becomes effective once the governor signs it or after the legislative session concludes without a signature.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
Mar 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Feb 29, 2024
Signed Jun 10, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 29, 2024 · House Mar 27, 2024
How they voted
30–0
Passed · 7 other
Total votes 37
May 29, 2024
D
Democratic12
58% Yea
R
Republican25
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
19
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 29, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 23, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 22, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Mar 27, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Mar 21, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (14-0).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
Feb 29, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Polly Thomas
RRepublican
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