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LouisianaHB 6482025 Regular SessionHouse

ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Increases candidate qualifying fees and dedicates the monies to the Campaign Sign Recycling Fund (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)

Sponsored By: Gerald "Beau" Beaullieu IV (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Senate and Governmental AffairsHouse and Governmental Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.

Higher fees for presidential election candidates

For candidates qualifying beginning August 1, 2025, the law raises two presidential election fees. Presidential-elector slates outside recognized political parties pay $1,000 instead of $500 when qualifying by fee. Candidates seeking a party’s presidential nomination pay $1,000 instead of $750, plus other applicable fees. Both groups keep the option to qualify by petition instead of paying the base fee. Presidential nomination petitions require handwritten signatures from at least 1,000 registered voters affiliated with that party in each congressional district.

Louisiana funds recycling for campaign signs

The law creates Louisiana’s Campaign Sign Recycling Fund and assigns its money to the secretary of state for recycling political signs. After required bond-fund allocations, the fund receives the extra $25 qualifying fees and designated gifts, grants, appropriations, and other revenue. Unspent money not committed to expenses stays in the fund across budget years. The money is invested like state general fund money, but investment interest goes to the state general fund. The secretary of state can issue rules to run the fund.

Election candidates pay an extra $25

Beginning August 1, 2025, Louisiana candidates qualifying in primary elections pay an extra $25, on top of other applicable fees. Candidates for a political party’s state central committee or parish executive committee are exempt. The added fee goes into the Campaign Sign Recycling Fund.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Gerald "Beau" Beaullieu IV

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Blake Miguez

    Republican • Senate

  • Caleb Kleinpeter

    Republican • Senate

  • Gary Carter

    Democratic • Senate

  • Glen Womack

    Republican • Senate

  • Gregory A. Miller

    Republican • Senate

  • Larry Selders

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Michael "Big Mike" Fesi

    Republican • Senate

  • Mike Reese

    Republican • Senate

  • Sam Jenkins

    Democratic • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 241 • No: 4

House vote • 6/3/2025

Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 99 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/1/2025

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

House vote • 5/19/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 94 • No: 4

House vote • 5/8/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 213.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Effective date: See Act.

    6/8/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/5/2025House

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

    6/4/2025House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/4/2025Senate

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    6/3/2025House

  7. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    6/2/2025House

  8. Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.

    6/2/2025House

  9. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/1/2025Senate

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

    5/28/2025Senate

  11. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/27/2025Senate

  12. Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.

    5/21/2025Senate

  13. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/19/2025House

  14. Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs.

    5/19/2025Senate

  15. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025.

    5/15/2025House

  16. Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.

    5/14/2025House

  17. Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/14/2025House

  18. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.

    5/12/2025House

  19. Reported with amendments (12-0).

    5/8/2025House

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

    4/23/2025House

  21. Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

    4/22/2025House

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