---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to child safety seats. (8/1/19)"
description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to child safety seats. (8/1/19)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 76"
citation: "Louisiana SB 76 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory Tarver"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-26"
last_action: "2019-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e47aff67-445c-4691-86db-48c4e5cee0bb"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235926"
source_hash: "b038c4f631523eedc14e0b25cb107875b73031268a56c2593779b8194e528be9"
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 76 (2019) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to child safety seats. (8/1/19)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB76 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118907)
2. **SB76 Act 51** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141920)
3. **SB76 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125436)
4. **SB76 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126701)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #568, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124037)
6. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #843, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126191)
7. **SB76 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137782)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#110) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#596) — **81–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#111) — **14–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gregory Tarver — primary (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Danny Martiny — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
- John Alario — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Gatti — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wesley Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Yvonne Colomb — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-01** Effective date 8/1/2019.
- **2019-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 51. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-30** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-28** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-28** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-27** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-05-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 81, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-23** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-05-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/19.
- **2019-05-15** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-13** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-23** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-22** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-17** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e47aff67-445c-4691-86db-48c4e5cee0bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).