A learner is preparing to convert a Louisiana Class E learner's license to an intermediate license. What supervised practice minimum must the parent or guardian attest to?
Correct answer: 50 hours total, including at least 15 at night.
The required statement confirms at least 50 hours with a licensed parent, guardian or adult age 21 or older, including at least 15 nighttime hours. These hours do not replace the skills test or other eligibility requirements.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:407(A)(3)(a); current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
A Louisiana learner has completed the required supervised practice. Who provides the signed statement confirming those hours for the intermediate-license application?
Correct answer: The applicant's parent or legal guardian.
The statute assigns the signed practice-hours attestation to the parent or legal guardian. Merely completing the hours is not a substitute for the required statement.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:407(A)(3)(a); current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
A 16-year-old with a Louisiana intermediate license plans to drive at midnight. Which companion satisfies the nighttime supervision exception?
Correct answer: A licensed 18-year-old sibling.
The 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. restriction permits accompaniment by a licensed parent or guardian, a licensed adult at least 21, or a licensed sibling at least 18. The sibling exception does not extend to an unrelated 18-year-old.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:407(A)(4), first paragraph; current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
At 7 p.m., a 16-year-old intermediate licensee wants to carry two 16-year-old friends who are not family. No parent, guardian or adult age 21 or older will accompany them. Is that allowed?
Correct answer: No; the evening limit allows no more than one such passenger.
Between 6 p.m. and 5 a.m., the intermediate-license rule limits under-21 passengers who are not immediate family to one unless the specified licensed parent, guardian or adult age 21 or older accompanies the driver. The passenger restriction starts before the nighttime-driving restriction.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:407(A)(4), second paragraph; current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
At 8 p.m., a 16-year-old intermediate driver is accompanied by a licensed 19-year-old sibling and two 17-year-old friends. No parent, guardian or adult age 21 or older is present. Does the sibling remove the evening limit on nonfamily passengers?
Correct answer: No; that sibling does not meet the passenger-limit exception.
An 18-or-older licensed sibling can satisfy the separate nighttime-driving exception. The evening passenger exception instead specifies a licensed parent, guardian or adult age 21 or older; the 19-year-old sibling in this scenario does not qualify.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:407(A)(4), first and second paragraphs; current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
A Louisiana intermediate driver is ready to leave, but an adult rear-seat passenger who is required to wear a seat belt has not buckled up. What must the driver do?
Correct answer: Wait until the passenger is properly restrained.
An intermediate licensee must not put the vehicle in motion until every occupant who is required to use a restraint is properly secured. Being an adult or sitting in the rear does not cancel this condition.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:407(A)(4), third paragraph; current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
A 16-year-old applicant has held a learner's license for 180 days but was at fault in a crash during that period. Do 180 elapsed days alone satisfy the record condition for conversion to an intermediate license?
Correct answer: No; the driving-record condition also matters.
The statute also requires remaining accident-free, except for crashes where the learner was not at fault, and having no specified convictions during the required learner period. The parent or guardian must attest to that record; a calendar count alone is insufficient.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:407(A)(3)(c); current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
In an ordinary passenger car with no exemption, an 18-month-old child is below the rear-facing seat's height and weight limits. Which restraint should be used?
Correct answer: A properly installed rear-facing child seat.
A child younger than two who remains within the manufacturer's rear-facing limits belongs in a rear-facing child restraint. Follow the child-seat and vehicle instructions rather than using walking ability to choose a restraint.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:295(A)(1); current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
A 3-year-old in an ordinary passenger car has outgrown the rear-facing seat's limits but is within the forward-facing seat's limits. What is the next restraint stage?
Correct answer: A forward-facing child seat with an internal harness.
For a child at least two who has reached the rear-facing height or weight limit, the next stage is a forward-facing system with an internal harness. Continue that stage until its manufacturer's height or weight limit is reached.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:295(A)(2); current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
A 6-year-old has outgrown the forward-facing harness seat and fits within a suitable booster's limits. In an ordinary passenger car, how must that booster be secured?
Correct answer: With the vehicle's lap-and-shoulder belt.
The booster stage applies from at least age four after the forward-facing limits are outgrown. A belt-positioning booster must be used with a lap-shoulder belt according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:295(A)(3); current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
A child has turned nine but the car's shoulder belt crosses the neck and the lap belt rides across the abdomen. A suitable booster still fits the child. What should the driver do?
Correct answer: Keep using an appropriate booster to achieve proper belt fit.
The adult belt must fit correctly; age alone does not make a poor fit acceptable. The law describes proper lap-and-shoulder placement and calls for the more protective category when more than one applies. Follow the appropriate booster's limits and instructions.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:295(A)(4) and (6); current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
A 12-year-old is riding in an ordinary passenger car with an available rear seat and suitable restraints. Where does Louisiana law require the child to ride?
Correct answer: In the rear seat with the appropriate restraint.
Children younger than 13 must be transported in the rear seat when one is available, using the appropriate child restraint, booster or correctly fitting adult belt. This scenario has no emergency or medical exemption.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:295(A)(5); current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
Which description shows a child fitting the car's adult safety belt correctly?
Correct answer: Back against the seat, knees at its edge; belt low on hips and across the chest.
Correct fit includes sitting all the way back, knees bending over the seat edge, a snug lap belt across the thighs and lower hips, and the shoulder belt crossing the center of the chest rather than the neck.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:295(A)(4), adult belt fit paragraph; current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
You are installing a child safety seat in a passenger car. Which instructions must you follow to properly restrain the child?
Correct answer: Both the vehicle's and the child-seat manufacturer's instructions.
Louisiana's child-restraint rule specifies the vehicle and child-seat manufacturer's instructions. Seat compatibility, belt routing and harness use depend on those instructions, not a generic installation method.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:295(A), opening paragraph; current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
An adult is driving a moving car on a Louisiana public road and holds a phone in one hand for an ordinary speakerphone call. No emergency exception applies. Is the call hands-free under the law?
Correct answer: No; holding the phone does not make it hands-free.
A hands-free call is conducted without using either hand to hold the phone. The statute specifically includes holding or physically supporting the device among prohibited operations; speakerphone mode alone does not change that.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:59(A)(2) and (B)(2)(a), (g); current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
While driving on a Louisiana public road, you glance at route guidance from a hands-free GPS without holding it or making manual entries. How does the phone-use statute treat that navigation use?
Correct answer: It is covered by the hands-free navigation exception.
The statute allows viewing navigation data or images with a hands-free GPS. That exception does not authorize manually typing an address while moving. Keep attention on driving and set the route before moving.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:59(C)(6), with (B)(2)(f); current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
Which use is an explicit emergency exception to Louisiana's wireless-device prohibition?
Correct answer: Reporting a collision with someone seriously injured.
The exceptions include reporting a collision, medical emergency, other emergency, serious road hazard or a situation threatening serious injury or death. A routine call or message does not become an emergency merely because it feels urgent.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:59(C)(1) and (2); current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
A car is completely stopped in its lane to obey a red traffic light, although it remains in gear. Does that stop meet the phone statute's definition of lawfully stationary?
Correct answer: Yes; a lawful complete stop at the signal qualifies.
The definition expressly includes being in gear and not moving while complying with a traffic signal. Device use must not violate another law, and this is not permission to use a phone while creeping forward. A safe parking place remains a better place to handle a nonessential message.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:59(A)(3) and (C)(4); current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
An adult driver reads an ordinary text on a handheld phone while the car is moving on a public road outside any school or work zone. No exception applies. Is the phone rule limited to those special zones?
Correct answer: No; the prohibition also applies on other public roads.
The prohibition applies on public roads and highways, and includes reading text-based messages. School and construction zones affect enforcement and penalties, not the basic geographical reach of the prohibition.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:59(B)(1) and (2)(b); current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
In September 2026, a driver says a Louisiana phone-use violation must receive a written warning rather than a penalty because the law is new. Is that claim correct?
Correct answer: No; that period ended when January 1, 2026 began.
The statute's warning-only provision applies to violations occurring before January 1, 2026. It does not promise a warning for a September 2026 violation or for each driver's first offense.
Source: Louisiana Legislature; R.S. 32:59(D)(6); current statutory text read September 22, 2026. ↗
