republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-542.md

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Bill	MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Provides for increased penalties for certain traffic-control signal violations	MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Provides for increased penalties for certain traffic-control signal violations	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 542	Louisiana HB 542 (2024)	bill		enacted	Vincent Cox III	8	21	2	2024-03-01	2024-05-24	openstates	ocd-bill/3fdc5f6a-d6bc-41ce-bb0c-c4cdcaa6ce51	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246300	cea25ebb6b079fa65abe6b723f6f8fedeee6d0e10a0dd1fdda483309899d3d99	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 542 (2024) — MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Provides for increased penalties for certain traffic-control signal violations

Version chain

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

1. HB542 Original (filed) — source
2. HB542 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB542 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB542 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1157, THPW, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1770, ACRJ, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #1798, ACRJ, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. HB542 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#210) — 97–3 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#923) — 37–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Vincent Cox III — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-24 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-05-24 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 269. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-22 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 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-07 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-06 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-01 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-08 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-03 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-02 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/03/2024.
• 2024-03-27 Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-03-26 Reported with amendments (10-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-18 Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
• 2024-03-13 Reported favorably (13-0), with the recommendation to recommit to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. 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; origin ocd-bill/3fdc5f6a-d6bc-41ce-bb0c-c4cdcaa6ce51. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).