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type: "Bill"
title: "DWI: Provides relative to tests for suspected drunken drivers. (gov sig)"
description: "DWI: Provides relative to tests for suspected drunken drivers. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 322"
citation: "Louisiana SB 322 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary L. Smith, Jr."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/812d8ef3-f076-42e2-ac49-a408801697a6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238158"
source_hash: "da3685f1dab85e350ffcb37ab3cebe8dc11d16b646d4d0288a4afe62c1fdfba2"
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 322 (2020) — DWI: Provides relative to tests for suspected drunken drivers. (gov sig)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB322 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162769)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #2707, LaCombe, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176470)
3. **SB322 Act 40** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179921)
4. **SB322 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169650)
5. **SB322 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177246)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#111) — **360** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#465) — **940** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#437) — **340** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-06-04** Effective date 6/4/2020.
- **2020-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 40. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Called from the calendar.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/20.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/812d8ef3-f076-42e2-ac49-a408801697a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).