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+type: "Bill"
+title: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Provides relative to specialty prestige license plates"
+description: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Provides relative to specialty prestige license plates"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 481"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 481 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gary Carter"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-29"
+last_action: "2019-05-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e8dfb9a-521f-46c7-9eea-42f81502f9ed"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236308"
+source_hash: "4a5016a22d3b55b0d973869c5a38b2736df285c98baac94c18c554b068f33928"
+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 481 (2019) — MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Provides relative to specialty prestige license plates
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB481 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121903)
+2. **HB481 Act 18** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139040)
+3. **HB481 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124362)
+4. **HB481 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126721)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #1401, James, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126474)
+6. **House Floor Amendment, #1436, Carter, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126656)
+7. **HB481 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136018)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#404) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#32) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gary Carter — primary (person)
+- Chris Leopold — cosponsor (person)
+- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
+- John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
+- John E. "Johnny" Guinn — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry Landry — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
+- **2019-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 18. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2019-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-14** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-13** Reported favorably.
+- **2019-04-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-04-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-04-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/23/19.
+- **2019-04-16** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-04-15** Reported favorably (13-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e8dfb9a-521f-46c7-9eea-42f81502f9ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+