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LouisianaHB 6792025 Regular SessionHouse

MTR VEHICLE/DRIVER LIC: Reduces the fee applicable to updating a driver's license to comply with REAL ID standards to a handling fee (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)

Sponsored By: Michael Robert Bayham Jr. (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 drivers pay less for REAL ID

Louisiana drivers updating to REAL ID before their license is eligible for renewal do not pay the duplicate-license fee. They pay only the handling fee, whose amount is set in existing law and not stated in this act. This fee reduction ends June 30, 2026.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 247 • No: 0

House vote • 6/9/2025

Read by title, roll called, yeas 102, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 102 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/8/2025

Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 38 • No: 0

House vote • 5/7/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 4/29/2025

Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 630 reported by the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 302.

    6/11/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/11/2025House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/10/2025Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/10/2025House

  5. Read by title, roll called, yeas 102, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    6/9/2025House

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

    6/9/2025House

  7. Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/8/2025Senate

  8. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    6/8/2025House

  9. Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.

    6/8/2025House

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

    6/4/2025Senate

  11. Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.

    6/3/2025Senate

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

    6/3/2025Senate

  13. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.

    6/1/2025Senate

  14. Reported favorably.

    5/29/2025Senate

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

    5/12/2025Senate

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

    5/8/2025Senate

  17. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/7/2025House

  18. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2025.

    5/6/2025House

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

    4/30/2025House

  20. Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 630 reported by the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works (10-0).

    4/29/2025House

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