---
type: "Bill"
title: "TRAFFIC/VIOLATIONS: Repeals the prohibition on issuing warning citations for violations of motor vehicle laws"
description: "TRAFFIC/VIOLATIONS: Repeals the prohibition on issuing warning citations for violations of motor vehicle laws"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 127"
citation: "Louisiana HB 127 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sherman Q. Mack"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-23"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a206010-eae8-43ae-a5f0-f8f063468917"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233319"
source_hash: "bc838378f64540293ee1a64c401e88ce00d89eb646e3d35bb455ed9291a18a00"
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 127 (2018) — TRAFFIC/VIOLATIONS: Repeals the prohibition on issuing warning citations for violations of motor vehicle laws

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB127 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1066519)
2. **HB127 Act 192** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099048)
3. **HB127 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076065)
4. **HB127 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093968)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#120) — **91–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#756) — **31–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Sherman Q. Mack — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 192. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-07** Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-05-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-05-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-30** Reported favorably.
- **2018-03-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/27/18.
- **2018-03-20** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-19** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2018.
- **2018-02-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a206010-eae8-43ae-a5f0-f8f063468917`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).