The end of inspection stickers in Louisiana is now just Governor Landry’s expected signature away from becoming official, as House Bill 1085 has achieved final legislative passage. The author, Stonewall Representative Larry Bagley, says that $10 inspection sticker will be replaced with a $6 QR code that you place on your windshield.
“The QR code will only have the VIN of the car and the color, I think,” Bagley noted.
And that information can only be read by special equipment available to law enforcement. If a civilian scans that QR code with a cell phone, that person will get nothing. Bagley says he had brought up this bill in the past, and service station owners had fought it, concerned that it would lead to a drop in business.
“I think that they kept thinking that if they kept fighting it, and it kept losing, that we might quit. And that may have happened, until Governor Landry got involved. Once he got involved, it was all over,” Bagley said.
Bagley disagrees with the notion that service stations made a lot of money through vehicle inspections.
“Let’s say he paid him $25 an hour. How could you make money off those stickers? How could you make money at all? And no one could ever answer that,” Bagley said.
Assuming Landry signs the bill like he said he would, you will no longer have to renew your inspection sticker as of January 1st of next year.