---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Provides relative to fees charged for certain military honor license plates and the processing of plates at the office of motor vehicles state headquarters (EN -$44,000 SG RV See Note)"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Provides relative to fees charged for certain military honor license plates and the processing of plates at the office of motor vehicles state headquarters (EN -$44,000 SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 532"
citation: "Louisiana HB 532 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2cdd0a77-e591-4c1c-a225-ef1e830dfce7"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244507"
source_hash: "d92f3fe0f1d157a68f8c2e1078eee6a6b56c9caece36298bc77f02ce7cf5bb82"
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 532 (2023) — MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Provides relative to fees charged for certain military honor license plates and the processing of plates at the office of motor vehicles state headquarters (EN -$44,000 SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB532 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309614)
2. **HB532 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332146)
3. **HB532 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310848)
4. **HB532 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312445)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1257, Owen, Charles, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312354)
6. **HB532 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327761)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#575) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#23) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles Owen — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Jonathan Goudeau — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (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. 174. `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 36 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`
- **2023-04-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-04-17** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-04-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2023.
- **2023-04-12** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-11** Reported favorably (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2cdd0a77-e591-4c1c-a225-ef1e830dfce7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).