---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONSUMERS: Prohibits government restriction of choice regarding vehicles"
description: "CONSUMERS: Prohibits government restriction of choice regarding vehicles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 515"
citation: "Louisiana HB 515 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodie Horton"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a3220ec-3719-4ff3-aad9-8543f05a1b84"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246273"
source_hash: "71581a4b361713fe7c6021969ea430b2623703588364f0b37cdecb9f8d37ee40"
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 515 (2024) — CONSUMERS: Prohibits government restriction of choice regarding vehicles

## Version chain

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

1. **HB515 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351360)
2. **HB515 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379601)
3. **HB515 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360974)
4. **HB515 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375864)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#308) — **98–4** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#869) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dodie Horton — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 251. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 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`
- **2024-04-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2024.
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-02** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a3220ec-3719-4ff3-aad9-8543f05a1b84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).