---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR CARRIERS: Provides relative to required insurance coverage applicable to trucks transporting waste"
description: "MOTOR CARRIERS: Provides relative to required insurance coverage applicable to trucks transporting waste"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 879"
citation: "Louisiana HB 879 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Les Farnum"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e2049c8-daef-4cfd-b681-eb1b744c8e74"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247074"
source_hash: "4c3a01dcd08dd63c78be158ca3144f2cffc892196ed297b681af3bfa33dacaac"
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 879 (2024) — MOTOR CARRIERS: Provides relative to required insurance coverage applicable to trucks transporting waste

## Version chain

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

1. **HB879 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361076)
2. **HB879 Act 747** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382776)
3. **HB879 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369989)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3805, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369551)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3847, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369726)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3893, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369952)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4016, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377276)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4059, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377578)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4234, Stine, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378615)
10. **HB879 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381305)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1316) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1670) — **86–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#830) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Les Farnum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 747. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-30** Read by title, roll called, yeas 86, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2024-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/30/2024.
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-23** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-22** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/2024.
- **2024-04-30** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Reported with amendments (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e2049c8-daef-4cfd-b681-eb1b744c8e74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).