---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Provides relative to the operation of a motor vehicle while using a wireless telecommunication device (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Provides relative to the operation of a motor vehicle while using a wireless telecommunication device (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 519"
citation: "Louisiana HB 519 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Glorioso"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/52445325-7147-4005-8150-95a2f4db9f35"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248551"
source_hash: "36afd189c3b62d9c17a0c3c6cadd4cf4e594e35a4579df3c5df0ca8134217723"
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 519 (2025) — MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Provides relative to the operation of a motor vehicle while using a wireless telecommunication device (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB519 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404113)
2. **HB519 Act 288** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425602)
3. **HB519 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408859)
4. **HB519 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412026)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2115, McCormick, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410744)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2302, Glorioso, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411626)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2342, McCormick, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411840)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1008, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409603)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2551, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420005)
10. **HB519 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422120)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#227) — **71–28** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#607) — **33–5** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#884) — **94–1** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2115 BY MCCORMICK, AMENDMENT 1 ONLY (#226) — **23–74** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian Glorioso — primary (person)
- Chance Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 288. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 5 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-29** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 28. 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 (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/52445325-7147-4005-8150-95a2f4db9f35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).