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+type: "Bill"
+title: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Establishes special prestige license plates for certain Louisiana schools"
+description: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Establishes special prestige license plates for certain Louisiana schools"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 394"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 394 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-30"
+last_action: "2023-06-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e9bc301-0258-467b-a5e0-db28841eb612"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244317"
+source_hash: "db01ea2f1ead9188c11ac3e6df039c44a61816e4c31fd6511ead9544e9ec653c"
+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 394 (2023) — MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Establishes special prestige license plates for certain Louisiana schools
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB394 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308526)
+2. **HB394 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332135)
+3. **HB394 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311625)
+4. **HB394 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313020)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1108, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311411)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1121, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311542)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #1336, Newell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312956)
+8. **HB394 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327685)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#36) — **100–1** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#573) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Buddy Mincey — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
+- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — 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. 167. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-05-30** 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`
+- **2023-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-19** 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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2023.
+- **2023-04-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-13** Reported with amendments (10-0). `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.
+- **2023-03-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-30** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e9bc301-0258-467b-a5e0-db28841eb612`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+