republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2019/sb-3.md

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Bill	MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides authority for the commissioner of the OMV to waive any penalty, procedure, or requirement for failure to maintain insurance provided that the principal driver of the motor vehicle is the registered owner or owner's spouse or child who was in the hospital or has died, and the owner can provide such proof to the commissioner. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)	MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides authority for the commissioner of the OMV to waive any penalty, procedure, or requirement for failure to maintain insurance provided that the principal driver of the motor vehicle is the registered owner or owner's spouse or child who was in the hospital or has died, and the owner can provide such proof to the commissioner. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2019	SB 3	Louisiana SB 3 (2019)	bill		enacted	Beth Mizell	5	18	3	2019-02-06	2019-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/26de7bb7-7cb8-4dc9-ad4d-2abd95f87169	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235620	f1aed9a992eb4d74d2b6e050ca4dc5e50dd97ad917181c4b447f082b02dab6e2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 3 (2019) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides authority for the commissioner of the OMV to waive any penalty, procedure, or requirement for failure to maintain insurance provided that the principal driver of the motor vehicle is the registered owner or owner's spouse or child who was in the hospital or has died, and the owner can provide such proof to the commissioner. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB3 Original (filed) — source
2. SB3 Act 173 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB3 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Amendment, #723, THPW, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. SB3 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CO-AUTHORS (#109) — 19–0 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#697) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#108) — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Beth Mizell — primary (person)
• Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Norton — cosponsor (person)
• Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
• Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
• C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
• Conrad Appel — cosponsor (person)
• Dale Erdey — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Frankie Howard — cosponsor (person)
• Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald Long — cosponsor (person)
• Jack Donahue — cosponsor (person)
• James R. Fannin — cosponsor (person)
• Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
• John Alario — cosponsor (person)
• John Milkovich — cosponsor (person)
• John R. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Walsworth — cosponsor (person)
• Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
• Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan Gatti — cosponsor (person)
• Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
• Yvonne Colomb — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-11 Effective date 6/11/2019.
• 2019-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 173. executive-signature
• 2019-06-04 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2019-06-02 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2019-05-31 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2019-05-30 Received from the House without amendments.
• 2019-05-30 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2019-05-23 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/19.
• 2019-05-22 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2019-05-21 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2019-05-20 Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2019-04-24 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. referral-committee
• 2019-04-23 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2019-04-23 Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2019-04-22 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2019-04-17 Reported with amendments.
• 2019-04-08 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
• 2019-02-06 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; origin ocd-bill/26de7bb7-7cb8-4dc9-ad4d-2abd95f87169. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).