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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "DWI: Provides relative to prior convictions of the crime of operating a vehicle while intoxicated"
+description: "DWI: Provides relative to prior convictions of the crime of operating a vehicle while intoxicated"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 318"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 318 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Connick"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-03-01"
+last_action: "2018-05-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f22f9d1-4cb9-4cb4-b812-6f95f9d89aa4"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233709"
+source_hash: "b52b179ac2cfe0124e80b9ba30869140799d0343f58e9eff383a662938fc6a24"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 318 (2018) — DWI: Provides relative to prior convictions of the crime of operating a vehicle while intoxicated
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB318 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1071061)
+2. **HB318 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097934)
+3. **HB318 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080162)
+4. **HB318 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1083191)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1874, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1079880)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1902, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080065)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #2156, Connick, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1081820)
+8. **HB318 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1091991)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#259) — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#617) — **36–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Patrick Connick — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-11** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
+- **2018-05-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 130. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-01** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2018-04-30** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-04-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-04-25** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-04-24** Reported favorably.
+- **2018-04-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-05** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-04-04** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-03-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/18.
+- **2018-03-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-03-28** Reported with amendments (13-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f22f9d1-4cb9-4cb4-b812-6f95f9d89aa4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+