---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to the suspension, revocation, renewal, and cancellation of licenses"
description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to the suspension, revocation, renewal, and cancellation of licenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 698"
citation: "Louisiana HB 698 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodney Schamerhorn"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/315ba2df-668d-4fbd-a9ed-311e8fc5d900"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246538"
source_hash: "3b533f33b58bb2d54733549ce6f3556a7977dbe0c6ca2f3ef8abb769ca099cee"
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 698 (2024) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to the suspension, revocation, renewal, and cancellation of licenses

## Version chain

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

1. **HB698 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352565)
2. **HB698 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379476)
3. **HB698 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356308)
4. **HB698 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357769)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1444, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355994)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1479, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356163)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1631, Schamerhorn, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357066)
8. **HB698 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373366)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#610) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#89) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rodney Schamerhorn — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-22** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 156. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-14** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-13** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-09** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-08** 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`
- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-24** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-25** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/25/2024.
- **2024-03-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-20** Reported with amendments (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/315ba2df-668d-4fbd-a9ed-311e8fc5d900`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).