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Senate approves bill allowing electronic recording of votes
Summary
The Louisiana Senate passed Senate Bill 1 to permit electronic voting and recorded electronic roll calls under the state's open meetings law. Sponsor Senator Jenkins said the change modernizes how legislatures and governmental bodies capture votes.
The Louisiana Senate on March 31 passed Senate Bill 1, authorizing electronic voting systems that record how members vote to comply with the state's open meetings law. The bill was sponsored by Senator Jenkins, who told the chamber the measure "will provide for electronic voting to be in compliance with our open meetings law" and that many governmental bodies now use electronic systems.
Senator Jenkins said the proposal simply adds recorded electronic voting "since so many of our governmental bodies now have some kind of electronic form of voting," noting it allows both a visible indication of how a member voted and recordation in the minutes. The clerk reported the machine vote and the bill passed unanimously on the machine (30 yeas, 0 nays as announced by the clerk in the final tally). The bill was recorded as finally passed and moved forward for any subsequent process required by law.
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