---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/DRIVER LIC: Provides relative to driver education skills test"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/DRIVER LIC: Provides relative to driver education skills test"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 592"
citation: "Louisiana HB 592 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodney Schamerhorn"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4404a45a-9e24-4434-8a54-325e6d5ae9a1"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244593"
source_hash: "cff6caf4da1f2de925d37f6de819102dd0b70c1fd201026370e24b58bd5d1e40"
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 592 (2023) — MTR VEHICLE/DRIVER LIC: Provides relative to driver education skills test

## Version chain

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

1. **HB592 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309932)
2. **HB592 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332148)
3. **HB592 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317794)
4. **HB592 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321643)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2011, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317200)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2111, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317582)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2763, Schamerhorn, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321299)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1170, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317858)
9. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2287, BUREAU, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326505)
10. **HB592 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328542)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#578) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#802) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#352) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rodney Schamerhorn — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 06/07/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 176. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Rules suspended. The amended bill was 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 with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. 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`
- **2023-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-11** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2023.
- **2023-05-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** Reported with amendments (9-0). `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/4404a45a-9e24-4434-8a54-325e6d5ae9a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).