---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to motor vehicle titles. (8/1/24)"
description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to motor vehicle titles. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 199"
citation: "Louisiana SB 199 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean-Paul Coussan"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59769464-a88a-4efc-8ecd-2ca09a9a41ad"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246355"
source_hash: "b3fec7fe1dd84fdd91102ad07b0859469b1987ebd12ba8cfe0c0babddd12bfc3"
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 SB 199 (2024) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides relative to motor vehicle titles. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB199 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351894)
2. **SB199 Act 99** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378093)
3. **SB199 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356401)
4. **SB199 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358463)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #848, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355084)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #920, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355622)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1231, Coussan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358277)
8. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1096, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356994)
9. **SB199 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373184)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#943) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#147) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jean-Paul Coussan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-21** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-05-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 99. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-15** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-14** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-13** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2024.
- **2024-04-24** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-22** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-26** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-20** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/59769464-a88a-4efc-8ecd-2ca09a9a41ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).