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type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Increases the penalty for driving a vehicle without a license plate attached. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Increases the penalty for driving a vehicle without a license plate attached. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 124"
citation: "Louisiana SB 124 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caleb Kleinpeter"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f74f1e97-fe46-44b2-9172-c71568a83d7b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244352"
source_hash: "c88defc6fbc43b77cd590ab837374c5b9e969cda0d964279844634805d353e31"
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 124 (2023) — CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Increases the penalty for driving a vehicle without a license plate attached. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB124 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308655)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3468, Gadberry, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325214)
3. **SB124 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332352)
4. **SB124 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315540)
5. **SB124 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318857)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1044, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316800)
7. **SB124 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329355)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#197) — **360** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#889) — **970** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#666) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Caleb Kleinpeter — primary (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-06-12** Effective date 8/1/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 256. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-01** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-01** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-01** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-06-01** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
- **2023-05-24** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-22** Reported favorably (7-3-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-03** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** 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/f74f1e97-fe46-44b2-9172-c71568a83d7b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).