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+type: "Bill"
+title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Creates the \"Utility Line Worker\", the \"Louisiana Soccer Association\", and the Louisiana Respiratory Therapist \"RT STRONG\" special prestige license plates"
+description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Creates the \"Utility Line Worker\", the \"Louisiana Soccer Association\", and the Louisiana Respiratory Therapist \"RT STRONG\" special prestige license plates"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 520"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 520 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["R. Dewith Carrier"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-03-31"
+last_action: "2023-06-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/024e8b49-c361-4227-91a6-35e83dc06bda"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244494"
+source_hash: "e94b7df2aecc19b59a4c307b954f1ffc0f6b83732df3485c0db01b3b093c71a0"
+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 520 (2023) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Creates the "Utility Line Worker", the "Louisiana Soccer Association", and the Louisiana Respiratory Therapist "RT STRONG" special prestige license plates
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB520 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309588)
+2. **HB520 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332144)
+3. **HB520 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311526)
+4. **HB520 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315864)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #1486, Carrier, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313975)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1895, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323487)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1939, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323716)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2212, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325793)
+9. **HB520 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328512)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#120) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#497) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#798) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- R. Dewith Carrier — primary (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — 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. 173. `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 97, 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 33 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`
+- **2023-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-04-25** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-04-25** Called from the calendar.
+- **2023-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/25/2023.
+- **2023-04-20** Notice given.
+- **2023-04-20** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2023-04-20** Called from the calendar.
+- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2023.
+- **2023-04-18** Notice given.
+- **2023-04-18** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2023.
+- **2023-04-17** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-13** Reported favorably (13-0). `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.
+- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/024e8b49-c361-4227-91a6-35e83dc06bda`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+