---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/OFFICE: Provides relative to special identification cards for children"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/OFFICE: Provides relative to special identification cards for children"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 494"
citation: "Louisiana HB 494 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Willard"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c0a153f-cc67-4189-9f19-144ce561d6df"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246252"
source_hash: "a032d88ad693ae985ea9ed17b3fd6f609cc074ff9702f846556ab95143874f47"
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 494 (2024) — MTR VEHICLE/OFFICE: Provides relative to special identification cards for children

## Version chain

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

1. **HB494 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351329)
2. **HB494 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382303)
3. **HB494 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355800)
4. **HB494 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356966)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1593, Willard, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356755)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #1607, Willard, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356841)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2301, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367990)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2589, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369330)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2759, Cloud, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370281)
10. **HB494 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379698)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#73) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1497) — **85–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#868) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Matthew Willard — primary (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 01/01/2025.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 563. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 85, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-24** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-21** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-21** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-03-21** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-03-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/21/2024.
- **2024-03-20** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-19** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c0a153f-cc67-4189-9f19-144ce561d6df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).