--- type: "Bill" title: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates a specialty license plate for the St. Edmund Catholic School Bluejays" description: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates a specialty license plate for the St. Edmund Catholic School Bluejays" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2024" identifier: "HB 943" citation: "Louisiana HB 943 (2024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Jeffery \"Jeff\" Wiley"] version_count: 4 action_count: 18 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2024-04-02" last_action: "2024-05-22" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eec1276d-e72e-4239-bf4e-895bd81d5210" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247164" source_hash: "daa484d97003b3a16375b10b26cecdb882e5bccceb95386cd7fb9bf0f9a72aaa" 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 943 (2024) — MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates a specialty license plate for the St. Edmund Catholic School Bluejays ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB943 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361381) 2. **HB943 Act 141** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378163) 3. **HB943 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363190) 4. **HB943 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373368) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#614) — **35–0** (pass) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#481) — **98–2** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-05-22** Effective date: 08/01/2024. - **2024-05-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 141. `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` - **2024-05-09** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt` - **2024-05-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2024-04-24** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2024-04-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024. - **2024-04-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2024-04-08** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `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/eec1276d-e72e-4239-bf4e-895bd81d5210`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).