---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/AUTOMOBILE: Provides a premium discount for commercial motor vehicles with dashboard cameras and telematics systems"
description: "INSURANCE/AUTOMOBILE: Provides a premium discount for commercial motor vehicles with dashboard cameras and telematics systems"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 549"
citation: "Louisiana HB 549 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodney Schamerhorn"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c9059f2-19de-4262-b5ae-08c878c87f7c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248595"
source_hash: "08408377808b3a115d83c2b0e24dce11271c17c0af86be2bb5820bfe09a47d64"
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 549 (2025) — INSURANCE/AUTOMOBILE: Provides a premium discount for commercial motor vehicles with dashboard cameras and telematics systems

## Version chain

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

1. **HB549 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404299)
2. **HB549 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419045)
3. **HB549 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406062)
4. **HB549 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409307)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1827, Glorioso, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408961)
6. **HB549 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416937)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#59) — **86–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#291) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rodney Schamerhorn — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-28** Effective date: 01/01/2026.
- **2025-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 19. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-21** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-12** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-07** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2025.
- **2025-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `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/8c9059f2-19de-4262-b5ae-08c878c87f7c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).