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LouisianaHB 5062026 Regular SessionHouse

MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Creates certain special prestige license plates

Sponsored By: Tehmi Jahi Chassion (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Transportation, Highways and Public Works

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

More Louisiana high school license plates

The law provides special plates for Louisiana public, private, and parochial high schools with at least 100 applicants per school. Named schools include Acadiana, Lafayette, Carencro, Northside, Southside, David Thibodaux STEM Magnet Academy, Ovey Comeaux, Early College Academy, and Edward J. Sam Accelerated School of Lafayette. Plates are available for passenger cars, pickup trucks, vans, and recreational vehicles. Each school's student council chooses the color and design, with the principal's approval and within existing state design rules. The state must set implementation rules and create qualifying plates once its registration system is updated to support them.

New blackout plates with yearly fees

The law creates a blackout plate for Louisiana citizens, with white letters and numbers on black and “LOUISIANA” centered. The state creates it after at least 1,000 people apply and its registration system is updated to support it. Eligible vehicles are passenger cars, pickup trucks, recreational vehicles, motorcycles, and vans. You pay $25 each year plus a $3.50 handling fee per plate, on top of the standard vehicle license tax. The yearly fee goes to the Louisiana Fraternal Order of Police as your charitable donation; the state keeps the handling fee.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 145 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/12/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

House vote • 4/13/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 96 • No: 0

House vote • 4/7/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 14 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 162.

    5/15/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/15/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/14/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/14/2026House

  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/13/2026House

  6. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/13/2026House

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/12/2026Senate

  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/5/2026Senate

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/4/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/29/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    4/15/2026Senate

  12. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    4/14/2026Senate

  13. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/13/2026House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/13/2026.

    4/9/2026House

  15. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/8/2026House

  16. Reported with amendments (14-0).

    4/7/2026House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    3/9/2026House

  18. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

    2/27/2026House

  19. Prefiled.

    2/26/2026House

  20. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    2/26/2026House

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