---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the \"Carroll High School\" specialty license plate"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the \"Carroll High School\" specialty license plate"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 217"
citation: "Louisiana HB 217 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Katrina Jackson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-28"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6608d21c-c8ad-43fa-8f3b-b3ad26443604"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233499"
source_hash: "99e1a976a16e3e8670bc400dee53eea3e7a6b1c9e699e6e146f52c16f1435bab"
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 217 (2018) — MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the "Carroll High School" specialty license plate

## Version chain

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

1. **HB217 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1069076)
2. **HB217 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096951)
3. **HB217 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074452)
4. **HB217 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1090728)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#15) — **88–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#577) — **30–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Katrina Jackson — primary (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Norton — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Walt Leger, III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 71. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-04-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-04-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-04-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-23** Reported favorably.
- **2018-03-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2018-03-14** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/15/18.
- **2018-03-14** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-13** Reported favorably (15-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6608d21c-c8ad-43fa-8f3b-b3ad26443604`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).