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HB696 • 2026

ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to early voting

ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to early voting

Elections
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Les Farnum
Last action
2026-03-09
Official status
Pending House and Governmental Affairs
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to early voting

ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to early voting

What This Bill Does

  • ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to early voting

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-09 H

    Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

  2. 2026-02-27 H

    First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

  3. 2026-02-27 H

    Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

  4. 2026-02-27 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to early voting

Current Bill Text

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HLS 26RS-1199 ORIGINAL
2026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 696
BY REPRESENTATIVE FARNUM
ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to early voting
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 18:1309(O), relative to early voting; to provide relative to early voting
3 procedures; to provide for the duties of registrars of voters related to early voting;
4 to authorize the secretary of state to establish policies and procedures to provide for
5 the implementation of procedures related to early voting; and to provide for related
6 matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 18:1309(O) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
9 §1309. Early voting; verification
10 * * *
11 O. The secretary may establish policies and procedures to provide for the
12 implementation of this Section.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 696 Original 2026 Regular Session Farnum
Abstract: Authorizes the secretary of state to establish policies and procedures to provide
for the implementation of procedures related to early voting.
Present law provides for various procedures related to early voting and duties of the registrar
of voters related thereto.
Page 1 of 2
CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.
HLS 26RS-1199 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 696
Proposed law authorizes the secretary of state to establish policies and procedures to provide
for the implementation of procedures in the Election Code related to early voting.
(Adds R.S. 18:1309(O))
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.