---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/EMERGENCY: Provides relative to emergency vehicles for coroners"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/EMERGENCY: Provides relative to emergency vehicles for coroners"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 474"
citation: "Louisiana HB 474 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jacob Braud"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/579fad69-c0ba-4e00-90f4-938cce04036c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248506"
source_hash: "b6b5db1214c2d25ea5132ceb43fc8f8ea935194c6654690ef58f8e80c02a6282"
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 474 (2025) — MTR VEHICLE/EMERGENCY: Provides relative to emergency vehicles for coroners

## Version chain

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

1. **HB474 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403983)
2. **HB474 Act 281** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425595)
3. **HB474 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411528)
4. **HB474 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413739)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2648, Braud, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413562)
6. **HB474 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423140)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#767) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#335) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jacob Braud — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 281. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-06-02** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-29** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-14** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-13** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-12** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025.
- **2025-05-07** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-06** Reported favorably (8-1-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/579fad69-c0ba-4e00-90f4-938cce04036c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).