---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the \"Purple Heart Disabled Veteran\" special prestige license plate"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the \"Purple Heart Disabled Veteran\" special prestige license plate"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 115"
citation: "Louisiana HB 115 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Wright"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-21"
last_action: "2019-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46fc82b5-760e-4834-9290-7bb1196731f6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235777"
source_hash: "435a365b38afed4840aec18cc5e9599699f00d165005736ca51b0ffbd283d487"
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 115 (2019) — MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates the "Purple Heart Disabled Veteran" special prestige license plate

## Version chain

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

1. **HB115 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1116911)
2. **HB115 Act 6** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139023)
3. **HB115 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124561)
4. **HB115 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126110)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1064, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124094)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1097, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124365)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1294, Wright, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125838)
8. **HB115 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136005)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#397) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#398) — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#16) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mark Wright — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Conrad Appel — cosponsor (person)
- Dale Erdey — cosponsor (person)
- Dan W. Morrish — cosponsor (person)
- Danny Martiny — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Donahue — cosponsor (person)
- John Alario — cosponsor (person)
- John Milkovich — cosponsor (person)
- John R. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Walsworth — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Gatti — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 6. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-14** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-13** Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-04-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/19.
- **2019-04-16** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-15** Reported with amendments (16-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/22/2019.
- **2019-03-21** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/46fc82b5-760e-4834-9290-7bb1196731f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).