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+type: "Bill"
+title: "VETERANS: Requires the office of vital records to share data regarding veterans (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "VETERANS: Requires the office of vital records to share data regarding veterans (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 620"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 620 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gary Carter"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-03-02"
+last_action: "2018-05-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05b9f865-2528-4537-a0ef-d0c8aec07f1b"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234098"
+source_hash: "c9934b2d94b4c4488ce423181951599c6f63a14a925ea8baa4f596f2e65d1651"
+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 620 (2018) — VETERANS: Requires the office of vital records to share data regarding veterans (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB620 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1073014)
+2. **HB620 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096992)
+3. **HB620 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075086)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1238, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075043)
+5. **HB620 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093076)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#723) — **32–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#78) — **89–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gary Carter — primary (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
+- Chris Leopold — cosponsor (person)
+- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
+- Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (person)
+- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Greg Cromer — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
+- Jim Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Johnny Berthelot — cosponsor (person)
+- John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
+- John E. "Johnny" Guinn — cosponsor (person)
+- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Stokes — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Hunter — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Huval — cosponsor (person)
+- Patricia Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Steve Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven E. Pylant — cosponsor (person)
+- Taylor F. Barras — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
+- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 99. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2018-05-03** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-04-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-04-25** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
+- **2018-03-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-03-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-03-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/21/18.
+- **2018-03-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-03-14** Reported with amendments (10-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `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/05b9f865-2528-4537-a0ef-d0c8aec07f1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+