---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Creates \"Mental Health\" special prestige license plate. (8/1/22)"
description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Creates \"Mental Health\" special prestige license plate. (8/1/22)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 61"
citation: "Louisiana SB 61 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-22"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b605817a-0cc8-410e-ac55-e354dbc0dcb4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241674"
source_hash: "ae0d974275a1b9259ccf0dabb6203be2c0bbedf0c461393b2a90751603d4018a"
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 61 (2022) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Creates "Mental Health" special prestige license plate. (8/1/22)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB61 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1249305)
2. **SB61 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280628)
3. **SB61 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261865)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #943, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261741)
5. **SB61 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278267)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#84) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#85) — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#791) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Patrick McMath — primary (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-17** Effective date 8/1/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 64. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-15** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/12/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-12** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-12** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2022.
- **2022-05-04** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-02** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-03-29** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-03-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-23** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b605817a-0cc8-410e-ac55-e354dbc0dcb4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).