---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provide relative to the authorization of the office of motor vehicles to impose fines on contracts"
description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provide relative to the authorization of the office of motor vehicles to impose fines on contracts"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 539"
citation: "Louisiana HB 539 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sherman Q. Mack"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ece54ed3-6f8c-48b6-8f91-300421a7a76a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244514"
source_hash: "b73cda400d4ac159c57dba1f4f84274eb44fc1089830ecbb0243065bc8820092"
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 539 (2023) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Provide relative to the authorization of the office of motor vehicles to impose fines on contracts

## Version chain

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

1. **HB539 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309652)
2. **HB539 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332514)
3. **HB539 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313424)
4. **HB539 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315160)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1585, Mack, Sherman Q., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314534)
6. **HB539 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329394)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#701) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#77) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sherman Q. Mack — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 357. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** 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`
- **2023-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-02** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-06-01** 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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** Reported favorably (12-0). `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/ece54ed3-6f8c-48b6-8f91-300421a7a76a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).