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+type: "Bill"
+title: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the \"Juneteenth\" specialty license plate"
+description: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the \"Juneteenth\" specialty license plate"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 323"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 323 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Vincent J. Pierre"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-03-29"
+last_action: "2023-06-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7853aa7-801a-4594-8eae-4d00b0c8f6b1"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244220"
+source_hash: "ac4a38bf3c687f8dd896ba067521eebe91eed72e27172cff5074f44abae200c7"
+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 323 (2023) — MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the "Juneteenth" specialty license plate
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB323 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307627)
+2. **HB323 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332127)
+3. **HB323 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311195)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1148, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317523)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1937, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323712)
+6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2038, Fields, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324456)
+7. **HB323 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328365)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#788) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#26) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#490) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Vincent J. Pierre — primary (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Tanner Magee — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 163. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2023.
+- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-22** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-18** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-04-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2023.
+- **2023-04-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-12** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
+- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b7853aa7-801a-4594-8eae-4d00b0c8f6b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+