--- type: "Bill" title: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the \"United Most Worshipful St. John's Grand Lodge of Louisiana A.F. & A.M.\" and the \"Daughters of Universal Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star\" specialty license plates" description: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the \"United Most Worshipful St. John's Grand Lodge of Louisiana A.F. & A.M.\" and the \"Daughters of Universal Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star\" specialty license plates" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2022" identifier: "HB 96" citation: "Louisiana HB 96 (2022)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Ken Brass"] version_count: 6 action_count: 20 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2022-02-18" last_action: "2022-05-17" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d10a6e3f-071d-42e1-9254-388e7bc495ee" source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241639" source_hash: "ed94d1cdd8b08e491a765f82c3e0ec71a830039e7aaef2ec54d9684d0a9eb41a" 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 96 (2022) — MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the "United Most Worshipful St. John's Grand Lodge of Louisiana A.F. & A.M." and the "Daughters of Universal Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star" specialty license plates ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB96 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1248654) 2. **HB96 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280923) 3. **HB96 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259440) 4. **House Committee Amendment, #1238, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259227) 5. **House Committee Amendment, #1252, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259293) 6. **HB96 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278440) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#541) — **34–0** (pass) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#19) — **94–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Ken Brass — primary (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. 29. `executive-signature` - **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2022-05-12** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **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 34 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. - **2022-03-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee` - **2022-03-21** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. - **2022-03-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2022-03-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/21/2022. - **2022-03-16** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. - **2022-03-15** Reported with amendments (11-0). - **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee` - **2022-02-18** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/18/2022. - **2022-02-18** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee` - **2022-02-18** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d10a6e3f-071d-42e1-9254-388e7bc495ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).