---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/BUSES-SCHOOL: Provides relative to regulations for the construction, design, equipment, and operation of school buses"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/BUSES-SCHOOL: Provides relative to regulations for the construction, design, equipment, and operation of school buses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 156"
citation: "Louisiana HB 156 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steve Pugh"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-03-25"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4963942b-37f7-48a0-9cb6-128dbe1bee78"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235834"
source_hash: "9ba243a366d077d9e6267ccde16817973412e8f041af939e098de02960b70368"
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 156 (2019) — MTR VEHICLE/BUSES-SCHOOL: Provides relative to regulations for the construction, design, equipment, and operation of school buses

## Version chain

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

1. **HB156 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118037)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3685, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142667)
3. **HB156 Act 377** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144612)
4. **HB156 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129706)
5. **HB156 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134140)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2556, Pugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133337)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2557, Pugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133341)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2306, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136677)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2700, Morrish, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138649)
10. **HB156 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143445)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#304) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#876) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1010) — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#746) — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1024) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Steve Pugh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 377. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-06** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-06** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2019-06-06** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/06/19.
- **2019-06-05** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2019-06-05** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2019-06-04** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2019-06-04** Senate conference committee members appointed: Morrish, White, and Mizell.
- **2019-06-04** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2019-06-04** House conferees appointed: Pugh, Nancy Landry, and Berthelot.
- **2019-06-03** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-01** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-27** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-14** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-14** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-14** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/19.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported favorably (9-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4963942b-37f7-48a0-9cb6-128dbe1bee78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).