---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Decreases the minimum light transmission percentage allowable for the front side window tint of motor vehicles"
description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Decreases the minimum light transmission percentage allowable for the front side window tint of motor vehicles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 119"
citation: "Louisiana HB 119 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daryl Deshotel"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-25"
last_action: "2025-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8c3a27f-9989-4681-8fdf-ec018ada575c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248018"
source_hash: "99a4c28149769156245a4c57a7ca4ac501b6da0e62ccf10b727ac944169e18c8"
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 119 (2025) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Decreases the minimum light transmission percentage allowable for the front side window tint of motor vehicles

## Version chain

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

1. **HB119 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1398522)
2. **HB119 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425044)
3. **HB119 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408919)
4. **HB119 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419211)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#216) — **93–3** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#427) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daryl Deshotel — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-10** Becomes Act No. 143 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/29/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-28** Reported favorably (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/28/2025.
- **2025-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8c3a27f-9989-4681-8fdf-ec018ada575c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).