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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana authorizes electronic voting machines for public body meetings
Last action · May 11, 2026: Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.Sponsors: Tony Bacala and 1 other
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What This Bill Would Do
PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides for the method of voting in public meetings
Changes how local and state public boards can record votes, offering an alternative to traditional verbal roll calls while maintaining public visibility of individual decisions.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
members of a public body
Members gain the option to cast votes using electronic voting machines instead of solely relying on verbal roll calls.
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Procedural history
14 actions- May 11, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- May 4, 2026SenateFloorReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- Apr 29, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- Apr 28, 2026SenateCommitteeReported favorably.
- Apr 13, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs.
- Apr 8, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
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- Apr 8, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Apr 7, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2026.
- Apr 1, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Mar 31, 2026HouseCommitteeReported favorably (11-0).
- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- Feb 6, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/6/2026.
- Feb 3, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 3, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
Version history
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Analysis Score
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- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
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