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+type: "Bill"
+title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Creates specialty license plates. (8/1/22)"
+description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Creates specialty license plates. (8/1/22)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 223"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 223 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Eddie Lambert"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2022-03-03"
+last_action: "2022-05-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da3faa4c-ceaa-4a35-a4e4-3d3aee7ae357"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242164"
+source_hash: "6ff083890cd1fcf4c92bdf7683195e014a4c97510f5205193c885ffbefbf0a6e"
+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 SB 223 (2022) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Creates specialty license plates. (8/1/22)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB223 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1255391)
+2. **House Floor Amendment, #4088, Owen, Robert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277154)
+3. **SB223 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283706)
+4. **SB223 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261837)
+5. **SB223 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1265456)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #945, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261751)
+7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1187, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263572)
+8. **SB223 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1279480)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CO-AUTHORS (#594) — **3–0** (fail) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#751) — **80–13** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR (#593) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#127) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Eddie Lambert — primary (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-24** Effective date 8/1/2022.
+- **2022-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 86. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-19** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-18** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2022-05-17** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2022-05-16** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2022-05-11** Received from the House with amendments.
+- **2022-05-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 13. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2022-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2022.
+- **2022-04-28** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2022-04-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2022-04-26** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2022-04-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-05** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2022-04-04** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2022-03-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2022-03-23** Reported with amendments.
+- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-03** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da3faa4c-ceaa-4a35-a4e4-3d3aee7ae357`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+