---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Provides relative to the refusal of an operator of a motor vehicle to provide identification to an officer"
description: "CRIME: Provides relative to the refusal of an operator of a motor vehicle to provide identification to an officer"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 639"
citation: "Louisiana HB 639 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Fontenot"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04d10c5c-3658-48e9-b95c-79dfbbc0c6be"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246445"
source_hash: "629d9c412b2893215f112c3f66846f5bc02acd5ae1a9fde6cd86eac41a1ecaa7"
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 639 (2024) — CRIME: Provides relative to the refusal of an operator of a motor vehicle to provide identification to an officer

## Version chain

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

1. **HB639 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352206)
2. **HB639 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380479)
3. **HB639 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363841)
4. **HB639 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366019)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3046, Fontenot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365639)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1872, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364567)
7. **HB639 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375784)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#896) — **26–10** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#502) — **68–31** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Fontenot — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 276. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 10 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 68, nays 31. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024.
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** Reported favorably (9-3). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `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/04d10c5c-3658-48e9-b95c-79dfbbc0c6be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).