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LouisianaHB 6132026 Regular SessionHouse

MTR VEHICLE/OFFICE: Requires the office of motor vehicles to display an image indicating the United States citizenship status on driver's licenses and state identification cards of cardholders (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)

Sponsored By: Dodie Horton (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Transportation, Highways and Public Works

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Louisiana IDs get verified citizenship markers

Louisiana’s motor vehicle office must add an eagle-in-flight image to driver’s licenses and special state identification cards. The image marks U.S. citizenship only when the applicant’s citizenship has been verified. If current systems cannot add it, a future system upgrade or new card rollout must support it. The office must adopt rules under the Administrative Procedure Act covering the image’s design, placement, and format. Those rules must also set which documents are accepted to verify U.S. citizenship.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Dodie Horton

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Charles Owen

    Republican • House

  • Dennis Bamburg Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Emily Chenevert

    Republican • House

  • Michael "Gabe" Firment

    Republican • House

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Kimberly Landry Coates

    Republican • House

  • Laurie Schlegel

    Republican • House

  • Michael Charles Echols

    Republican • House

  • Michael Melerine

    Republican • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Mike Johnson

    Republican • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • Phillip DeVillier

    Republican • House

  • Raymond J. Crews

    Republican • House

  • Rhonda Gaye Butler

    Republican • House

  • Rodney Schamerhorn

    Republican • House

  • Roger William Wilder III

    Republican • House

  • Vincent E. Cox III

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 107 • No: 43

Senate vote • 5/11/2026

Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 27 • No: 9

House vote • 3/30/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 72, nays 29. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 72 • No: 29

House vote • 3/23/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 8 • No: 5

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 170.

    5/15/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/15/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/13/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/13/2026House

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

    5/12/2026House

  6. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/11/2026Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/11/2026House

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

    4/28/2026Senate

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

    4/27/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/22/2026Senate

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

    4/1/2026Senate

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

    3/31/2026Senate

  13. Called from the calendar.

    3/30/2026House

  14. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 72, nays 29. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    3/30/2026House

  15. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    3/26/2026House

  16. Notice given.

    3/26/2026House

  17. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/30/2026.

    3/26/2026House

  18. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/26/2026.

    3/25/2026House

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

    3/24/2026House

  20. Reported favorably (8-5).

    3/23/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

  23. Prefiled.

    2/26/2026House

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

    2/26/2026House

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