---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the pelicans specialty license plate"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the pelicans specialty license plate"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 601"
citation: "Louisiana HB 601 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jonathan Goudeau"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da60f44f-6432-41c7-b371-c835bdf025b1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240575"
source_hash: "2f5e20037983c23077c22326e83c263ddc64c34e43826e221941eced1fac5024"
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 601 (2021) — MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the pelicans specialty license plate

## Version chain

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

1. **HB601 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212155)
2. **HB601 Act 118** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233853)
3. **HB601 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213934)
4. **HB601 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228890)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#35) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#545) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jonathan Goudeau — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 118. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-28** 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 36 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.
- **2021-04-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20** 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, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2021.
- **2021-04-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-14** Reported favorably (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.
- **2021-04-02** 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/da60f44f-6432-41c7-b371-c835bdf025b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).