---
type: "Bill"
title: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Establishes special prestige license plates for certain Louisiana schools"
description: "MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Establishes special prestige license plates for certain Louisiana schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 394"
citation: "Louisiana HB 394 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e9bc301-0258-467b-a5e0-db28841eb612"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244317"
source_hash: "db01ea2f1ead9188c11ac3e6df039c44a61816e4c31fd6511ead9544e9ec653c"
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 394 (2023) — MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Establishes special prestige license plates for certain Louisiana schools

## Version chain

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

1. **HB394 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308526)
2. **HB394 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332135)
3. **HB394 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311625)
4. **HB394 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313020)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1108, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311411)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1121, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311542)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1336, Newell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312956)
8. **HB394 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327685)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#36) — **100–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#573) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Buddy Mincey — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Tanner Magee — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 167. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2023.
- **2023-04-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-13** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e9bc301-0258-467b-a5e0-db28841eb612`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).