---
type: "Bill"
title: "DWI: Provides relative to penalties for the crime of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. (7/1/24) (Item #16) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)"
description: "DWI: Provides relative to penalties for the crime of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. (7/1/24) (Item #16) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024s2"
identifier: "SB 7"
citation: "Louisiana SB 7 (2024s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-09"
last_action: "2024-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dab8ff05-ba42-43c0-99e0-068e9ea5e910"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245611"
source_hash: "78064e341b4e548114a8ef7f8de9dc7232703fa681b359a01c5fb38130289999"
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 7 (2024s2) — DWI: Provides relative to penalties for the crime of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. (7/1/24) (Item #16) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB7 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1342894)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #151, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346197)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #167, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347061)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #191, Muscarello, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348100)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #194, Marcelle, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348207)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #239, Marcelle, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350238)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #240, Muscarello, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350269)
8. **SB7 Act 9** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353170)
9. **SB7 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344444)
10. **SB7 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345197)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #99, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344360)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #168, Price, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345089)
13. **Senate Floor Amendment, #181, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345143)
14. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #115, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344610)
15. **SB7 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350537)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 168 BY PRICE, SB 7 BY EDMONDS (#15) — **12–27** (fail) · upper
- CONCUR (#76) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 239 BY MARCELLE, MOTION TO ADOPT (#91) — **35–61** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#16) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#92) — **93–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rick Edmonds — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-05** Effective date 7/1/2024.
- **2024-03-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 9. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-02-29** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 3/6/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-02-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 3/6/2024. `enrolled`
- **2024-02-29** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-02-29** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-02-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 02/29/24.
- **2024-02-28** Notice given.
- **2024-02-28** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-02-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 02/28/2024.
- **2024-02-27** Read by title, rules suspended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-27** Read by title, amended, adopted.
- **2024-02-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-02-26** Reported with amendments (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-23** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-02-22** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-02-20** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-19** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dab8ff05-ba42-43c0-99e0-068e9ea5e910`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).