HB487 • 2026

MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Provides relative to running red lights (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Mike Bayham
Last action: 2026-06-09
Official status: Signed by the Governor - Act 808
Effective date: Not listed

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MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Provides relative to running red lights (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)

What This Bill Does

MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Provides relative to running red lights (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Summary of Senate Amendments to HB487

Filed

Plain English: SSHB487 4931 6251 HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS HB 487 2026 Regular Session Bayham MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Provides relative to running red lights Synopsis of Senate Amendments 1.

SSHB487 4931 6251 HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS HB 487 2026 Regular Session Bayham MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Provides relative to running red lights Synopsis of Senate Amendments 1.
Prohibits any person from immobilizing or booting a motor vehicle for the failure to pay a red-light traffic violation citation issued through an automated traffic enforcement system without the vehicle owner having been afforded an administrative hearing, and exempts Orleans parish from the prohibition.
2.
Makes technical changes.

Fiscal Note - HB487 Engrossed With Senate Floor Amendments

Filed

Plain English: Filed 4

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House Committee Amendment #1794 THPW Adopted

Adopted

Plain English: HCAHB487 4931 1794 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works to Original House Bill No.

HCAHB487 4931 1794 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works to Original House Bill No.
487 by Representative Bayham 1 AMENDMENT NO.
1 2 On page 1, line 7, after "Section 1." and before "is" change "R.S.
23:232(introductory 3 paragraph)" to "R.S.

House Vote on HB 487 CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1760)

Filed

Plain English: 2026 Regular Session Sequence: 1760 HBS AMENDED BY SENATE TO BE CONCURRED IN HB 487 BY BAYHAM CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS Date: 5/29/2026 Time: 2:42:31 PM ROLL CALL The roll was called with the following result: YEAS Adams Amedee Bacala Bamburg Beaullieu Berault Billings Boudreaux Bourriaque Boyd Boyer Brass Braud Broussard Bryant Butler Carlson Carrier Carter, R.

2026 Regular Session Sequence: 1760 HBS AMENDED BY SENATE TO BE CONCURRED IN HB 487 BY BAYHAM CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS Date: 5/29/2026 Time: 2:42:31 PM ROLL CALL The roll was called with the following result: YEAS Adams Amedee Bacala Bamburg Beaullieu Berault Billings Boudreaux Bourriaque Boyd Boyer Brass Braud Broussard Bryant Butler Carlson Carrier Carter, R.
Carter, W.
Carver Chenevert Coates Cox Crews Deshotel Dewitt Dickerson Domangue Echols Edmonston Egan Farnum Firment Fisher Fontenot Freeman Freiberg Gadberry Galle Geymann Glorioso Hebert Henry, C.
Henry, D.

Senate Floor Amendment #4533 Kleinpeter Adopted

Adopted

Plain English: SFAHB487 4379 4533 SENATE FLOOR AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senator Kleinpeter to Engrossed House Bill No.

SFAHB487 4379 4533 SENATE FLOOR AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senator Kleinpeter to Engrossed House Bill No.
487 by Representative Bayham 1 AMENDMENT NO.
1 2 On page 1, line 2, after "paragraph)" insert "and 1741(K)" 3 AMENDMENT NO.
2 4 On page 1, line 4, after "occurs;" insert "to provide for immobilization of vehicles for traffic 5 violations;" 6 AMENDMENT NO.

Bill History

2026-06-09 H
Effective date: 08/01/2026.
2026-06-09 H
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 808.
2026-06-04 H
Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
2026-06-01 S
Signed by the President of the Senate.
2026-05-31 H
Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
2026-05-29 H
Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
2026-05-29 H
Called from the calendar.
2026-05-29 H
Read by title, returned to the calendar.
2026-05-28 H
Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.
2026-05-28 H
Received from the Senate with amendments.
2026-05-28 S
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 22 yeas and 8 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
2026-05-28 S
Called from the Calendar.
2026-05-26 S
Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
2026-05-26 S
Rules suspended.
2026-05-20 S
Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
2026-05-19 S
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
2026-05-18 S
Reported favorably.
2026-03-24 S
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
2026-03-23 S
Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
2026-03-23 H
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
2026-03-18 H
Scheduled for floor debate on 03/23/2026.
2026-03-17 H
Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
2026-03-16 H
Reported with amendments (16-0).
2026-03-09 H
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
2026-02-27 H
First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
2026-02-26 H
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
2026-02-26 H
Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

MTR VEHICLE/VIOLATIONS: Provides relative to running red lights (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED
ACT No. 8082026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 487
BY REPRESENTATIVES BAYHAM AND DANA HENRY
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 32:232(introductory paragraph) and 1741(K) and to enact R.S.
3 32:232(3)(h), relative to traffic control signals; to provide relative to traffic
4 violations; to provide relative to penalties for violations when no injury occurs; to
5 provide for immobilization of vehicles for traffic violations; and to provide for
6 related matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 32:232(introductory paragraph) and 1741(K) are hereby amended
9 and reenacted and R.S. 32:232(3)(h) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
10 §232. Traffic-control signals
11 Whenever traffic is controlled by traffic-control signals exhibiting different
12 colored lights, or colored lighted arrows, successively one at a time or in
13 combination, only the colors green, red, and yellow shall be used, except for special
14 pedestrian signals carrying a word legend, and said. The lights shall indicate and
15 apply to drivers of vehicles and pedestrians as follows:
16 * * *
17 (3) Steady RED indication:
18 * * *
19 (h) If the violation involves entering a shoulder or turn lane to overtake a
20 vehicle that is stopped or slowing to a stop at a red indication, but does not result in
21 an injury, the offender shall be fined two hundred fifty dollars.
22 * * *
23 §1741. Immobilization of motor vehicles by booting; private property; legislative
24 findings
25 * * *
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HB NO. 487 ENROLLED
1 K.(1) Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prohibit any parish or
2 municipality from enacting ordinances that impose more restrictive requirements or
3 regulations than those provided in this Chapter.
4 (2) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no person shall
5 immobilize or boot a motor vehicle for failure to pay a citation issued through an
6 automated traffic enforcement system for a red-light traffic violation unless the
7 vehicle owner has first been afforded an administrative hearing relative to the traffic
8 citation. The provisions of this Paragraph shall not apply to Orleans Parish.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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