---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to certain unauthorized acts of motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, distributor branches, factory branches, and converters. (8/1/22)"
description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to certain unauthorized acts of motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, distributor branches, factory branches, and converters. (8/1/22)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 152"
citation: "Louisiana SB 152 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Abraham"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5d2a7c3-2d24-4952-aea9-d7ab0d39399e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242063"
source_hash: "4563b339f7d0f092d227cd156a8bfe0ad11f6b52bb370fc71981f366e8b95f5d"
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 SB 152 (2022) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to certain unauthorized acts of motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, distributor branches, factory branches, and converters. (8/1/22)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB152 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1254551)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3971, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1276730)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4042, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1276998)
4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2942, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277307)
5. **SB152 Act 258** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1288687)
6. **SB152 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267195)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1328, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1265394)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1484, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267105)
9. **SB152 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283534)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#845) — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1110) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#229) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark Abraham — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-03** Effective date 8/1/2022.
- **2022-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 258. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/27/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-26** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-05-24** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2022-05-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2022.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-10** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-09** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-20** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Commerce.
- **2022-04-20** Discharged from the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
- **2022-04-18** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-13** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-12** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-06** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5d2a7c3-2d24-4952-aea9-d7ab0d39399e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).