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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Increases the penalty for driving a vehicle without a license plate attached. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Increases the penalty for driving a vehicle without a license plate attached. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 124"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 124 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Caleb Kleinpeter"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-03-30"
+last_action: "2023-06-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f74f1e97-fe46-44b2-9172-c71568a83d7b"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244352"
+source_hash: "c88defc6fbc43b77cd590ab837374c5b9e969cda0d964279844634805d353e31"
+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 124 (2023) — CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Increases the penalty for driving a vehicle without a license plate attached. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB124 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308655)
+2. **House Floor Amendment, #3468, Gadberry, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325214)
+3. **SB124 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332352)
+4. **SB124 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315540)
+5. **SB124 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318857)
+6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1044, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316800)
+7. **SB124 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329355)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#197) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#889) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR (#666) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Caleb Kleinpeter — primary (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-12** Effective date 8/1/2023.
+- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 256. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-05** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2023-06-05** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-04** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2023-06-01** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-01** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-06-01** Called from the calendar.
+- **2023-06-01** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2023-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
+- **2023-05-24** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2023-05-22** Reported favorably (7-3-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2023-05-03** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-04-26** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2023-04-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-30** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f74f1e97-fe46-44b2-9172-c71568a83d7b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+