---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Prohibits vaping in motor vehicles under certain circumstances"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Prohibits vaping in motor vehicles under certain circumstances"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 109"
citation: "Louisiana HB 109 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Marino"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-19"
last_action: "2020-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9fab2bd-2788-42bb-acd4-57f074d695bf"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237546"
source_hash: "c42d7b166c2d85a0efa8766b0a4efcb42b96d1405c9138a238c051e10c57fdc3"
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 109 (2020) — MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Prohibits vaping in motor vehicles under certain circumstances

## Version chain

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

1. **HB109 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1156082)
2. **HB109 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180273)
3. **HB109 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171066)
4. **HB109 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177742)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#514) — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#213) — **80–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joseph Marino — primary (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Buddy Mincey — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-05** Effective date: 08/01/20.
- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 65. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-29** 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`
- **2020-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-28** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 19. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/20.
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-13** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
- **2020-02-19** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b9fab2bd-2788-42bb-acd4-57f074d695bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).