republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-520.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Creates the \"Utility Line Worker\", the \"Louisiana Soccer Association\", and the Louisiana Respiratory Therapist \"RT STRONG\" special prestige license plates"
description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Creates the \"Utility Line Worker\", the \"Louisiana Soccer Association\", and the Louisiana Respiratory Therapist \"RT STRONG\" special prestige license plates"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 520"
citation: "Louisiana HB 520 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Dewith Carrier"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/024e8b49-c361-4227-91a6-35e83dc06bda"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244494"
source_hash: "e94b7df2aecc19b59a4c307b954f1ffc0f6b83732df3485c0db01b3b093c71a0"
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 HB 520 (2023) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Creates the "Utility Line Worker", the "Louisiana Soccer Association", and the Louisiana Respiratory Therapist "RT STRONG" special prestige license plates

## Version chain

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

1. **HB520 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309588)
2. **HB520 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332144)
3. **HB520 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311526)
4. **HB520 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315864)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1486, Carrier, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313975)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1895, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323487)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1939, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323716)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2212, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325793)
9. **HB520 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328512)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#120) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#497) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#798) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- R. Dewith Carrier — primary (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 173. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-22** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-18** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-25** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-25** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/25/2023.
- **2023-04-20** Notice given.
- **2023-04-20** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-04-20** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2023.
- **2023-04-18** Notice given.
- **2023-04-18** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2023.
- **2023-04-17** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-13** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/024e8b49-c361-4227-91a6-35e83dc06bda`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).