republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/sb-37.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides for the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission. (8/1/25)"
description: "MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides for the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 37"
citation: "Louisiana SB 37 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Hensgens"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40708472-e0e9-46d8-b2dd-ad4ac65fd9f6"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248092"
source_hash: "4b844d8213bd0bc04e81dcfa60cc18edac39cf10d5337c59528e8f57fc5e5e06"
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 37 (2025) — MOTOR VEHICLES: Provides for the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB37 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400322)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3189, House Proposed, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424099)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3767, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419692)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3771, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419696)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3834, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420181)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #4060, Hebert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421523)
7. **SB37 Act 408** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425938)
8. **SB37 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414911)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1627, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414041)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1744, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414755)
11. **SB37 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425089)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#949) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT (#868) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#282) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1246) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#959) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bob Hensgens — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 6/20/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 408. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-12** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/13/2025. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/13/2025. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-12** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-12** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2025-06-12** Rules suspended, called from regular order.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/12/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2025-06-11** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2025-06-11** House conferees appointed: Hebert, Carver, and Jacob Landry.
- **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2025-06-10** Senate conference committee members appointed: Hensgens, Abraham, and Mizell.
- **2025-06-09** Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-08** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-06-02** Reported with amendments (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40708472-e0e9-46d8-b2dd-ad4ac65fd9f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).