Latest Action: 06/23/2008 - Sent to the Secretary of State on 06/25. Bill Text Requests joint committee to study redistricting and precinct law.
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Authorizes the registrars of colleges and universities to register citizens to vote. (gov sig)
Latest Action: 04/08/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Extends the period of early voting (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/30/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008. Bill Text Requires the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections to provide certain information concerning registration and reinstatement and voter registration applications to certain persons (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Requires approval by the legislature prior to cancellation of the registrations of inactive voters (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Read by title, withdrawn from the files of the House. Bill Text Requires the secretary of state to provide for the attachment of voter registration applications to provisional ballots (OR +$11,898 GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/17/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008. Bill Text Allows voter registration in the office of a public high school guidance counselor (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Latest Action: 06/23/2008 - Signed by the Speaker of the House. Bill Text Requests joint committee to study redistricting and precinct law.
Latest Action: 04/08/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Extends the period of early voting (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/30/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008. Bill Text Requires the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections to provide certain information concerning registration and reinstatement and voter registration applications to certain persons (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Requests the secretary of state's voter outreach division to strengthen its efforts relative to voter education and promoting and facilitating voter registration throughout the state
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Authorizes the registrars of colleges and universities to register citizens to vote. (gov sig)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Requires approval by the legislature prior to cancellation of the registrations of inactive voters (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Read by title, withdrawn from the files of the House. Bill Text Requires the secretary of state to provide for the attachment of voter registration applications to provisional ballots (OR +$11,898 GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/17/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008. Bill Text Allows voter registration in the office of a public high school guidance counselor (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Latest Action: 07/06/2008 - Effective date 7/1/08. Bill Text Requires withdrawal and disqualification notice to be placed next to the precinct register. (7/1/08) (EG NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text To require approval by the House and Senate governmental affairs committees prior to cancellation of the registrations of inactive voters (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 05/13/2008 - Read by title. Returned to the calendar subject to call Bill Text Changes the hours the polls are required to be open on election day. (1/1/09) (OR DECREASE GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Requires the parish board of election supervisors to inform certain voters if their ballots were rejected and the reason for rejection. (7/1/08)
Latest Action: 06/23/2008 - Sent to the Secretary of State on 06/25. Bill Text Requests the House Select Committee on Homeland Security and the Senate Select Committee on Homeland Security to meet and function as a joint committee to study and make recommendations concerning creating special designations for emergency vehicles.
Latest Action: 07/06/2008 - Effective date 7/1/08. Bill Text Requires withdrawal and disqualification notice to be placed next to the precinct register. (7/1/08) (EG NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 05/13/2008 - Read by title. Returned to the calendar subject to call Bill Text Changes the hours the polls are required to be open on election day. (1/1/09) (OR DECREASE GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Requires the parish board of election supervisors to inform certain voters if their ballots were rejected and the reason for rejection. (7/1/08)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Requires a two-thirds vote to add an exception to the standards and requirements of the Code of Ethics. (gov sig)
Latest Action: 06/30/2008 - Effective date 6/30/08. Bill Text Increase penalties for the crime of corrupt influencing. (gov sig)
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Requests the secretary of state's voter outreach division to strengthen its efforts relative to voter education and promoting and facilitating voter registration throughout the state
Latest Action: 04/17/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Commends Malavika Balachandran as a winner of the Siemens Award for Advanced Placement
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text To require approval by the House and Senate governmental affairs committees prior to cancellation of the registrations of inactive voters (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Provides for protection of voter registration information
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Provides that the secretary of state shall prepare and send absentee voting materials to registered voters in certain places affected by a hurricane (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Provides relative to the change of address for purposes of voter registration (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced 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 a person from registering to vote or voting who is committed to a mental institution or forensic facility after being found not guilty by reason of insanity or after a court determines lack of mental capacity for criminal trial. (1/1/09)
Latest Action: 06/30/2008 - Effective date 6/30/08. Bill Text Prohibits the registrar of voters and Department of State from disclosing certain information received from another state pursuant to cooperative agreement and geographical coding of addresses of registered voters. (gov sig)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Provides for protection of voter registration information
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Provides that the secretary of state shall prepare and send absentee voting materials to registered voters in certain places affected by a hurricane (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. Bill Text Provides relative to the change of address for purposes of voter registration (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
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