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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "STATE AGENCIES: Provides relative to acceptable methods of payment for the office of motor vehicles (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
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description: "STATE AGENCIES: Provides relative to acceptable methods of payment for the office of motor vehicles (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2023"
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identifier: "HB 215"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 215 (2023)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 20
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-03-27"
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last_action: "2023-06-07"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b4606ee-1607-43cd-a429-68dd4befeaf2"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244080"
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source_hash: "ecd306e6197306c0d7b7eaa1b2450c08f92cee9b81f45d62c087f902cf1eca31"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# Louisiana HB 215 (2023) — STATE AGENCIES: Provides relative to acceptable methods of payment for the office of motor vehicles (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB215 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305767)
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2. **HB215 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332118)
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3. **HB215 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313773)
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4. **HB215 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315254)
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5. **House Committee Amendment, #1394, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313379)
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6. **House Committee Amendment, #1426, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313710)
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7. **House Floor Amendment, #1553, Echols, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314213)
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8. **HB215 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327715)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#565) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#67) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Michael Echols — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
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- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 155. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2023-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
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- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
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- **2023-05-30** 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`
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- **2023-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
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- **2023-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-04-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-25** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
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- **2023-04-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2023-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2023.
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- **2023-04-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2023-04-19** Reported with amendments (17-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
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- **2023-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b4606ee-1607-43cd-a429-68dd4befeaf2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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