---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the \"Louisiana Aviator\" special prestige license plate"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the \"Louisiana Aviator\" special prestige license plate"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 300"
citation: "Louisiana HB 300 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Brown"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09d93a9f-d38c-4718-ad7f-a6b551078fe5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233626"
source_hash: "29d662ab03c22edf82607f92d573da5376faa5528aa7616ab9f7d1ca97a7377a"
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 300 (2018) — MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the "Louisiana Aviator" special prestige license plate

## Version chain

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

1. **HB300 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1070513)
2. **HB300 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096964)
3. **HB300 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076071)
4. **HB300 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1079547)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1554, Brown, Chad, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077440)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3273, Price, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1090494)
7. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3157, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1089869)
8. **HB300 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093072)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#125) — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#716) — **93–1** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#590) — **31–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chad Brown — primary (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. 82. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2018-04-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/03/18.
- **2018-04-26** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2018-04-26** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-25** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. 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.
- **2018-04-02** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-28** 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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, 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`
- **2018-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/09d93a9f-d38c-4718-ad7f-a6b551078fe5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).