---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Provides relative to the Protect Wild Dolphins special prestige license plates"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Provides relative to the Protect Wild Dolphins special prestige license plates"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 363"
citation: "Louisiana HB 363 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Phillip Tarver"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-31"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/957342c9-821d-4aba-90d8-25dbcb342402"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240263"
source_hash: "a7ed7c8f086cfa7e7763af4b88917e3ae3fd6471b1d0a5d6b13b5e10dcbd74dd"
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 363 (2021) — MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Provides relative to the Protect Wild Dolphins special prestige license plates

## Version chain

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

1. **HB363 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210007)
2. **HB363 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235325)
3. **HB363 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214174)
4. **HB363 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215627)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1079, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213048)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1199, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213993)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #602, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214255)
8. **HB363 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229166)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#29) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#539) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Phillip Tarver — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 06/14/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 244. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-20** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2021.
- **2021-04-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-14** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/957342c9-821d-4aba-90d8-25dbcb342402`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).