---
type: "Bill"
title: "STATE AGENCIES: Provides relative to acceptable methods of payment for the office of motor vehicles (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "STATE AGENCIES: Provides relative to acceptable methods of payment for the office of motor vehicles (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 215"
citation: "Louisiana HB 215 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-27"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b4606ee-1607-43cd-a429-68dd4befeaf2"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244080"
source_hash: "ecd306e6197306c0d7b7eaa1b2450c08f92cee9b81f45d62c087f902cf1eca31"
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 215 (2023) — STATE AGENCIES: Provides relative to acceptable methods of payment for the office of motor vehicles (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB215 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305767)
2. **HB215 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332118)
3. **HB215 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313773)
4. **HB215 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315254)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1394, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313379)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1426, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313710)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1553, Echols, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314213)
8. **HB215 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327715)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#565) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#67) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael Echols — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 155. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2023.
- **2023-04-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** Reported with amendments (17-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b4606ee-1607-43cd-a429-68dd4befeaf2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).