---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/SEAT BELTS: Provides with respect to applications of minors applying for driving privileges"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/SEAT BELTS: Provides with respect to applications of minors applying for driving privileges"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 379"
citation: "Louisiana HB 379 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Harris"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18e18c35-10ac-415c-abe7-464ba3e1cfb4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236195"
source_hash: "a0f3cc68be3e9fa556457d8d9f6a106af156e8c7f71b9fb56cb664480bb10fb7"
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 379 (2019) — MTR VEHICLE/SEAT BELTS: Provides with respect to applications of minors applying for driving privileges

## Version chain

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

1. **HB379 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121388)
2. **HB379 Act 327** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144256)
3. **HB379 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128965)
4. **HB379 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132753)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2387, Harris, J., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132391)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1341, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129422)
7. **HB379 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138446)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#229) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#498) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jimmy Harris — 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. 327. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-21** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/19.
- **2019-05-01** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-30** 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/18e18c35-10ac-415c-abe7-464ba3e1cfb4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).