HB 596 Louisiana House · 2024 Regular Session

LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to the election of home rule charter commissions

This bill amends the process for electing home rule charter commissions by adding a provision to set an effective date for the election. It directly affects local governments in jurisdictions that use home rule charters and their residents who would vote in these elections. The key mechanism is a specific instruction to include language in the petition that establishes when the new election rules take effect. The bill also sets the effective date for the entire act to be January 1, 2025.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Mar 1, 2024 Signed Jun 19, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 23, 2024 · House Apr 29, 2024

How they voted

31–0
Passed · 7 other
Total votes 38
May 23, 2024
D Democratic12
9 Yea 3
75% Yea
R Republican26
22 Yea 4
84% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
21
Key actions
5
Committee
5
May 29, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 23, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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 13, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 8, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 29, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 18, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (14-0).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
lower
Mar 1, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Daryl Deshotel
Daryl Deshotel
RRepublican
LA
28