Published: April 9, 2026
By: Kylah Babin, LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE — The Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 3-4 Wednesday against advancing a Democratic bill that would establish a “Louisiana Voting Rights Act.”
The bill’s author, Sen. Royce Duplessis, D-New Orleans, and two other Democratic senators voted to move the bill out of committee. Four Republican senators voted against the bill, Senate Bill 365, which would have prohibited state and local government entities from imposing or enforcing any election practice that could suppress minority voting.
Well over 100 people submitted green cards in support of the bill, along with more than 70 emails sent to promote it passage, according to the committee’s chairman, Sen. Caleb Kleinpeter, R-Port Allen.
“We just ask for a fair opportunity, because we know when we get that opportunity, we can succeed and we can perform,” Sen. Edmond Jordan, D-Baton Rouge, said during his testimony for the bill.
None of the Republicans who voted against the bill made any comments at the hearing about why they opposed it.
Read more at Shreveport Times.
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