---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates military honor specialty license plates"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates military honor specialty license plates"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 603"
citation: "Louisiana HB 603 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Foy Gadberry"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-04"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6706269d-8225-43eb-95b9-a203152f4f05"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242411"
source_hash: "ee678c4c717efdea186fd380810a80328aadd1cd92c745a4e7a6947df2388c8b"
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 603 (2022) — MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates military honor specialty license plates

## Version chain

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

1. **HB603 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1256972)
2. **HB603 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281021)
3. **HB603 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259422)
4. **HB603 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261378)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1234, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259216)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1253, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259319)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1301, Gadberry, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259677)
8. **HB603 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278539)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#555) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#31) — **87–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#556) — **23–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Foy Gadberry — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 53. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-15** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/12/2022.
- **2022-05-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-23** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/22/2022.
- **2022-03-16** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-15** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6706269d-8225-43eb-95b9-a203152f4f05`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).