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LouisianaHB 5772025 Regular SessionHouse

VOTING/MACHINES: Provides for the procurement of voting systems (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsored By: Daryl Andrew Deshotel (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Senate and Governmental AffairsHouse and Governmental Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

5 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.

Contractors get a contract dispute process

Contractors can complain to the chief procurement officer about covered state-contract disputes, including breach, mistake, or misrepresentation. The officer or a designee can settle the complaint with the attorney general’s approval. After requesting a final decision in writing, contractors can proceed as though denied if no written decision arrives within 60 days. The parties can agree to a longer wait. This process excludes professional, personal, consulting, and social-services contracts.

Fast challenges to voting contract awards

An affected person can file a written protest at least 10 days before bids open or within 14 days after award. A timely protest generally pauses the purchase unless the chief procurement officer finds substantial state interests require moving ahead. A successful protester who should have won can recover reasonable bid-related costs, but not attorney fees; administrative awards require attorney general concurrence. Appeals to Louisiana’s commissioner of administration generally have seven-day filing and decision deadlines, including covered contract disputes and contractor bans. Court challenges to protests and awards have a 14-day filing deadline after the chief procurement officer’s decision. Challenges to suspensions, contractor bans, and contract disputes have a 60-day deadline after the commissioner’s decision. Cases go only to the Nineteenth Judicial District Court; protest trials are nonjury, start within 14 days, and require judgment within seven days after submission.

Special procurement dispute rules end in 2027

Beginning June 30, 2027, this law’s special procurement dispute rules become null and void. The expiration covers procedures for bidders, contractors, and people facing suspension or bans from state contracts.

Contractors face bans with hearing rights

The chief procurement officer can suspend or bar contractors from state awards for cause when it serves the state’s best interests. Grounds include contracting crimes, antitrust convictions, serious performance failures, state ethics violations, and other serious concerns about contractor responsibility. A suspension based on probable cause can last no more than six months. Affected contractors must get reasonable notice and a chance to be heard. Written decisions must explain the reasons and review rights.

New buying and testing rules for voting

Louisiana’s Secretary of State must buy voting systems through competitive sealed proposals or an invitation to negotiate, using appropriated funds. The Voting System Commission recommends system types, and state purchasing officials help plan the purchase. Systems and parts must meet U.S. Election Assistance Commission guidelines through testing by an accredited lab. The Secretary must publish certification standards at least 30 days before requesting proposals or inviting negotiations. An independent committee reviews proposals and publicly tests systems. Vendors seeking certification pay the expenses of experts hired to examine their systems; approval certificates and supporting records are public.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Daryl Andrew Deshotel

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 151 • No: 1

Senate vote • 6/2/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 1

House vote • 5/7/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 98 • No: 0

House vote • 4/29/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 16 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 208.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Effective date: 06/08/2025.

    6/8/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/5/2025House

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/4/2025Senate

  5. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/3/2025House

  6. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/2/2025Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    6/2/2025House

  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/28/2025Senate

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/27/2025Senate

  10. Rules suspended. Reported favorably.

    5/21/2025Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs.

    5/8/2025Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/7/2025House

  13. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    5/7/2025Senate

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2025.

    5/6/2025House

  15. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/30/2025House

  16. Reported with amendments (16-0).

    4/29/2025House

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

    4/14/2025House

  18. Prefiled.

    4/4/2025House

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

    4/4/2025House

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