---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Provides relative to specialty prestige license plates"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Provides relative to specialty prestige license plates"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 481"
citation: "Louisiana HB 481 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary Carter"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e8dfb9a-521f-46c7-9eea-42f81502f9ed"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236308"
source_hash: "4a5016a22d3b55b0d973869c5a38b2736df285c98baac94c18c554b068f33928"
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 481 (2019) — MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Provides relative to specialty prestige license plates

## Version chain

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

1. **HB481 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121903)
2. **HB481 Act 18** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139040)
3. **HB481 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124362)
4. **HB481 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126721)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1401, James, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126474)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #1436, Carter, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126656)
7. **HB481 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136018)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#404) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#32) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gary Carter — primary (person)
- Chris Leopold — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
- John E. "Johnny" Guinn — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Landry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 18. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-14** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-13** Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-04-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/23/19.
- **2019-04-16** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-15** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e8dfb9a-521f-46c7-9eea-42f81502f9ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).