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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs"
+description: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 494"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 494 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chris Hazel"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-03-02"
+last_action: "2018-05-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8326f8ea-870f-406a-917c-be52bb2ca2c9"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233925"
+source_hash: "6e600ad2c407da2086d7a107e950ea9ed2a8bedfbaf8b6059b28a5b55fc081b1"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 494 (2018) — SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB494 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1072261)
+2. **HB494 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097937)
+3. **HB494 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080625)
+4. **HB494 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1091948)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#328) — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#619) — **35–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chris Hazel — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-11** Effective date: 06/30/2018.
+- **2018-05-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 133. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-01** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2018-04-30** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-04-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-04-25** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-04-24** Reported favorably.
+- **2018-04-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-09** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-04-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-04-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/18.
+- **2018-04-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-03-29** Reported favorably (12-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8326f8ea-870f-406a-917c-be52bb2ca2c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+