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Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Makes the state of Louisiana a party to an interstate compact entitled the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote" (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 04/16/2008 - Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Prohibits certain public service announcements during time periods around an election if such public service announcement features a person who has qualified to be a candidate in such election
Latest Action: 02/10/2008 - Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Requires ethics training and certification that a candidate does not owe any ethics fines and has received ethics training as conditions for qualification (Item #7(5) and (6)) (OR +$103,174 GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Read by title. Returned to the calendar subject to call as amended. Bill Text Requires certain disclosures for the conduct of certain telephone communications and polling (Item #7(1)) (RE1 +$10,000 GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/13/2005 - Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 23, nays 75. Failed to pass, motion to reconsider tabled. Bill Text Provides for election to the office of U.S. representative and U.S. senator only at a general election (EG -$3,395,000 GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 05/12/2005 - Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. Bill Text Increases the compensation of commissioners who serve at the polls on election day (EG +$1,174,125 GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/20/2005 - Read by title as amended and failed to pass 6 yeas and 29 nays.. Bill Text Prohibits the use of electronic communication devices while a voter is in a voting machine
Latest Action: 04/25/2005 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Provides for a closed party primary election system for congressional offices with candidates and voters participating in a first and second primary or nominating convention according to party affiliation (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 07/14/2005 - Vetoed by the Governor. Bill Text Eliminates the January election date for bond, tax, and other proposition elections (EN DECREASE LF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/09/2005 - Approved on 6/9/05. Bill Text Studies the possibility of allowing political parties to appoint poll watchers at any polling place where such party has a candidate on the ballot
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Latest Action: 04/22/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Authorizes a parish board of election supervisors to schedule two commissioners to each serve for half of an election day (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/12/2008 - Effective date: June 12, 2008. Bill Text Extends the hours of early voting during the early voting period (EN +$355,803 GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/06/2008 - Effective date: See Act. Bill Text Makes various changes to the election code (EN +$11,898 GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/04/2008 - Enrolled, signed by the Speaker of the House and taken by the Clerk of the House to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Requests that Senator John McCain, as the unofficial nominee of the Republican Party for president of the United States, urge the Commission on Presidential Debates to hold a debate with the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States in the city of New Orleans
Latest Action: 06/06/2008 - Effective date: June 6, 2008. Bill Text Provides for a program for the conduct of early voting at additional locations (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 04/09/2008 - Involuntarily deferred in committee. Bill Text Changes the voter registration deadline from thirty to ten days prior to the election
Latest Action: 06/17/2008 - Effective date: Jan. 1, 2009. Bill Text Provides relative to absentee by mail and early voting by certain voters who participate in the special program for physically handicapped voters (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 04/22/2008 - Involuntarily deferred in committee. Bill Text Requires a background check on a candidate who has qualified for office (OR INCREASE LF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Involuntarily deferred in committee. Bill Text Changes the dates of qualifying for elections (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/23/2005 - Approved on 6/23/05. Bill Text Provides for the House and Governmental Affairs Committee to study issues related to voter registration, early voting, and voter registration during early voting
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