---
type: "Bill"
title: "TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Moves responsibility for the collection of the electric and hybrid vehicle fee from the Department of Revenue to the office of motor vehicles"
description: "TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Moves responsibility for the collection of the electric and hybrid vehicle fee from the Department of Revenue to the office of motor vehicles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 645"
citation: "Louisiana HB 645 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Reich Freiberg"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5281f4b-f261-455f-b035-b223baf76f99"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246451"
source_hash: "40d229b2995838c54c2eadbe085f3dc9353b72634b3f4daad9e8914b66d050b4"
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 645 (2024) — TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Moves responsibility for the collection of the electric and hybrid vehicle fee from the Department of Revenue to the office of motor vehicles

## Version chain

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

1. **HB645 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352227)
2. **HB645 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379475)
3. **HB645 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355772)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1252, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354597)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1400, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355632)
6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2519, Connick, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368904)
7. **HB645 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373187)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#910) — **93–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#549) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#71) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Reich Freiberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-22** Effective date: 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 155. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-14** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-13** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/08/2024.
- **2024-05-07** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-07** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-17** Reported favorably. `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, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/21/2024.
- **2024-03-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-19** Reported with amendments (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/f5281f4b-f261-455f-b035-b223baf76f99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).