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+type: "Bill"
+title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides for the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission. (8/1/25)"
+description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides for the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission. (8/1/25)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 37"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 37 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bob Hensgens"]
+version_count: 11
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-03-31"
+last_action: "2025-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40708472-e0e9-46d8-b2dd-ad4ac65fd9f6"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248092"
+source_hash: "4b844d8213bd0bc04e81dcfa60cc18edac39cf10d5337c59528e8f57fc5e5e06"
+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 37 (2025) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides for the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission. (8/1/25)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB37 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400322)
+2. **Conference Committee Report, #3189, House Proposed, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424099)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #3767, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419692)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #3771, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419696)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #3834, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420181)
+6. **House Floor Amendment, #4060, Hebert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421523)
+7. **SB37 Act 408** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425938)
+8. **SB37 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414911)
+9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1627, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414041)
+10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1744, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414755)
+11. **SB37 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425089)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#949) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- REJECT (#868) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#282) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1246) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- ADOPT (#959) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bob Hensgens — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-20** Effective date 6/20/2025.
+- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 408. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-12** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/13/2025. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/13/2025. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-12** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2025-06-12** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
+- **2025-06-12** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
+- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
+- **2025-06-12** Rules suspended, called from regular order.
+- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2025-06-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/12/2025.
+- **2025-06-11** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
+- **2025-06-11** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
+- **2025-06-11** House conferees appointed: Hebert, Carver, and Jacob Landry.
+- **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
+- **2025-06-10** Senate conference committee members appointed: Hensgens, Abraham, and Mizell.
+- **2025-06-09** Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2025-06-08** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.
+- **2025-06-04** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2025-06-02** Reported with amendments (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-20** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2025-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-05-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40708472-e0e9-46d8-b2dd-ad4ac65fd9f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+