---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/DRIVER LIC: Provides relative to the surety bond required for third-party testers administering driving skills tests for Class \"A\", \"B\", or \"C\" driver's licenses"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/DRIVER LIC: Provides relative to the surety bond required for third-party testers administering driving skills tests for Class \"A\", \"B\", or \"C\" driver's licenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 350"
citation: "Louisiana HB 350 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Carpenter"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2bd3acb-2186-42e9-8e1e-a681663fe7d8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236166"
source_hash: "4d693240e9834ae2afc8175e134f7139d1c8a232dd162d9f4881992e7544c96f"
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 350 (2019) — MTR VEHICLE/DRIVER LIC: Provides relative to the surety bond required for third-party testers administering driving skills tests for Class "A", "B", or "C" driver's licenses

## Version chain

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

1. **HB350 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121349)
2. **HB350 Act 216** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144078)
3. **HB350 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131231)
4. **HB350 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139633)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#396) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#574) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbara Carpenter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 216. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 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 favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/19.
- **2019-05-07** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-06** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2bd3acb-2186-42e9-8e1e-a681663fe7d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).