---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Creates specialty license plates. (8/1/22)"
description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Creates specialty license plates. (8/1/22)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 223"
citation: "Louisiana SB 223 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eddie Lambert"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da3faa4c-ceaa-4a35-a4e4-3d3aee7ae357"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242164"
source_hash: "6ff083890cd1fcf4c92bdf7683195e014a4c97510f5205193c885ffbefbf0a6e"
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 SB 223 (2022) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Creates specialty license plates. (8/1/22)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB223 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1255391)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #4088, Owen, Robert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277154)
3. **SB223 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283706)
4. **SB223 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261837)
5. **SB223 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1265456)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #945, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261751)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1187, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263572)
8. **SB223 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1279480)

## Votes

- CO-AUTHORS (#594) — **3–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#751) — **80–13** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#593) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#127) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Eddie Lambert — primary (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-24** Effective date 8/1/2022.
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 86. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-19** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-18** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-16** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2022-05-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 13. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2022.
- **2022-04-28** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-04-26** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-04** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-03-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-23** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da3faa4c-ceaa-4a35-a4e4-3d3aee7ae357`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).