With everything dealt with, and a veto session cancelled, the Louisiana Legislature Log presents its 2024 Louisiana Legislature scorecard. Twenty bills were selected and weighed for computation. These were chosen from the watch list compiled throughout the session. For a bill’s vote to be selected, in one chamber there had to be more than one legislator not voting for the winning or losing side. In fact, with so much momentous legislation passing through the chambers this year, every selected bill – and several more could have qualified, but the sample selected here covers the wide range of topics – had at least a quarter of the chamber on the losing side except for one instance.
Being that passage of bills depends upon the seated membership of a body, not voting is counted as a negative vote. However, if a legislator had a leave of absence granted for that day, his absent votes weren’t counted for bills voted on that day and the score adjusted to take that into account. In the case of constitutional amendments, the governor’s score would be adjusted similarly, although none featured in this year’s scorecard.
Here are the bills on which the scorecard was computed:
