---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to passing a parked emergency vehicle"
description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to passing a parked emergency vehicle"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 593"
citation: "Louisiana HB 593 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Travis Johnson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35da3cb3-c698-4634-b1cd-4fcd85db029a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240567"
source_hash: "a772c1921e1c49a601fdde3e24def020d37bcce96d978b6276eb75976ff32c88"
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 593 (2021) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to passing a parked emergency vehicle

## Version chain

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

1. **HB593 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212134)
2. **HB593 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231961)
3. **HB593 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215931)
4. **HB593 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217550)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1584, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216787)
6. **HB593 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228896)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#68) — **87–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#544) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Travis Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-04** Effective date: 06/04/2021.
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 78. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/28/2021.
- **2021-05-27** 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.
- **2021-04-28** 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 87, nays 0. 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 (12-0).
- **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/35da3cb3-c698-4634-b1cd-4fcd85db029a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).