---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to duplicate driver's licenses and identification cards (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)"
description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to duplicate driver's licenses and identification cards (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 550"
citation: "Louisiana HB 550 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nicholas Muscarello"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12dcc84e-316d-4fbc-bb37-9b5764f5090d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240512"
source_hash: "9c2f9f525f126939a90274c45076cf2b0954ce0bfaadc1f60b05b04b8fc4465e"
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 550 (2021) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to duplicate driver's licenses and identification cards (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB550 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211910)
2. **HB550 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235320)
3. **HB550 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215883)
4. **HB550 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217523)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1593, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216876)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #888, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216274)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1726, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221835)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1731, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221888)
9. **HB550 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230312)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#878) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#67) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#437) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nicholas Muscarello — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 239. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-01** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2021-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/01/2021.
- **2021-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-20** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-12** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-11** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-10** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-26** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/2021.
- **2021-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-21** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **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.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `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/12dcc84e-316d-4fbc-bb37-9b5764f5090d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).