---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to recall repairs of motor vehicles. (8/1/18)"
description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to recall repairs of motor vehicles. (8/1/18)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 126"
citation: "Louisiana SB 126 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danny Martiny"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-27"
last_action: "2018-05-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2018e883-6ba1-4ee0-b9c0-d31d50305c9f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233434"
source_hash: "52f044b0e88931a49b507b2e55c82615274aca8b53aa64b7c9525bcce0669d46"
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 126 (2018) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to recall repairs of motor vehicles. (8/1/18)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB126 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1068458)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2490, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1084132)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2551, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1084931)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3397, Coussan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1089467)
5. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2445, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1085197)
6. **SB126 Act 142** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097952)
7. **SB126 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074941)
8. **SB126 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077126)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1215, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076877)
10. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #981, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075202)
11. **SB126 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1092110)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#639) — **35–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#614) — **84–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#95) — **31–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Danny Martiny — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-11** Effective date 8/1/2018.
- **2018-05-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 142. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-02** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-01** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2018-04-30** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2018-04-27** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 84, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/18.
- **2018-04-12** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-11** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2018-04-10** Reported with amendments (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-03-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2018-03-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-03-20** Called from the Calendar.
- **2018-03-19** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2018-03-15** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-03-14** Reported favorably.
- **2018-03-12** 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`
- **2018-02-27** 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/2018e883-6ba1-4ee0-b9c0-d31d50305c9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).