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+type: "Bill"
+title: "MTR VEHICLE/MOTORCYCLES: Modifies the definition of autocycle applicable to the operator's helmet exemption and driver's license endorsement requirement"
+description: "MTR VEHICLE/MOTORCYCLES: Modifies the definition of autocycle applicable to the operator's helmet exemption and driver's license endorsement requirement"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 354"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 354 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rodney Schamerhorn"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-31"
+last_action: "2021-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae1c4ba0-aab9-4793-90ab-46a95e11dff2"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240253"
+source_hash: "811e97f6a80fd84ad990b0d1458d0388f9e052da57df97270f18246c873a146f"
+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 354 (2021) — MTR VEHICLE/MOTORCYCLES: Modifies the definition of autocycle applicable to the operator's helmet exemption and driver's license endorsement requirement
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB354 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1209959)
+2. **HB354 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235215)
+3. **HB354 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217229)
+4. **HB354 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231303)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#146) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#688) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 203. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/3/2021.
+- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-20** Reported favorably.
+- **2021-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-04-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2021.
+- **2021-04-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-04-26** Reported favorably (13-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
+- **2021-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae1c4ba0-aab9-4793-90ab-46a95e11dff2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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