AN ACT To amend and reenact Section 414 and Section 857 of Title 18 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 to provide with respect to assistance in voting for a voter who is unable to read or is blind or otherwise physically handicapped, and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.
AN ACT To amend and reenact the entirety of Title 18 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, except for those chapters presently designated as Chapter 8: Political Contributions or Other Activity, and Chapter 9: Registrars of Voters Employees' Retirement System; all relative to elections, to redesignate said Title 18 ELECTIONS as Title 18 LOUISIANA ELECTION CODE and to redesignate said Chapters 8 and 9 as Chapters 11 and 12, respectively; all in order to provide, in conformity with the mandate contained in Article XI, Section 1 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, an election code for the state of Louisiana, including particularly the laws governing matters relating to the registration of voters; the nomination and election of public officials of the state and its political subdivisions and election districts, national elections, voting and voting machines, including absentee voting, contests and challenges, election offenses and civil remedies and criminal penalties; to provide for the severability of provisions of this Act and of the code hereby adopted; to repeal certain designated laws and all other laws inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of the election code hereby enacted; to provide that the provisions of this Act shall prevail over any other Act adopted by the legislature prior to January 1, 1978; to provide the effective date of this election code, and otherwise generally and specifically to provide with respect to matters pertaining to the above.
