---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to dealer warranty compensation"
description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to dealer warranty compensation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 502"
citation: "Louisiana HB 502 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Stefanski"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a198682-caf5-4a1d-8ac2-f209141ba87c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240456"
source_hash: "bfdc5be509fb88ad4e52f960c9e0411817c9ca4f9ba02210ac16c42d0beaa453"
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 502 (2021) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to dealer warranty compensation

## Version chain

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

1. **HB502 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211630)
2. **HB502 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231959)
3. **HB502 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215403)
4. **HB502 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218135)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1745, Stefanski, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217756)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1849, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222830)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1966, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223841)
8. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2091, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224887)
9. **HB502 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228311)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#398) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#101) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#679) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John Stefanski — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 76. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-28** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-27** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-25** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/25/2021.
- **2021-05-18** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-18** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-17** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-13** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-12** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-28** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-27** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-04-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2021.
- **2021-04-22** Notice given.
- **2021-04-22** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-04-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2021.
- **2021-04-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-20** Reported favorably (15-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a198682-caf5-4a1d-8ac2-f209141ba87c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).