---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/COMMERCIAL: Provides relative to the disqualification of commercial motor vehicle drivers"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/COMMERCIAL: Provides relative to the disqualification of commercial motor vehicle drivers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 780"
citation: "Louisiana HB 780 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vincent J. Pierre"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-03-31"
last_action: "2020-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/598ed6c1-7825-461e-b110-86bdd774ef0d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238692"
source_hash: "ffffb365153f0c8c6d60e958cc25f8f4e33e045819c7fe304b000d6bd1dabfba"
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 780 (2020) — MTR VEHICLE/COMMERCIAL: Provides relative to the disqualification of commercial motor vehicle drivers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB780 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1167888)
2. **HB780 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180315)
3. **HB780 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173963)
4. **HB780 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175530)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1761, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174376)
6. **HB780 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177689)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#353) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#540) — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Vincent J. Pierre — primary (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. 93. `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 33 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.
- **2020-05-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably (15-0).
- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-31** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/598ed6c1-7825-461e-b110-86bdd774ef0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).