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+type: "Bill"
+title: "VETERANS: Provides relative to veterans' affairs"
+description: "VETERANS: Provides relative to veterans' affairs"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 137"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 137 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["James Armes"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-25"
+last_action: "2019-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ec052ec-3ab4-49ad-abff-8a00dfee92a0"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235815"
+source_hash: "c4340eb0a14bcdb506ae4b3ee58358796b7b060aa6b3a4fc59ceda956c902702"
+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 137 (2019) — VETERANS: Provides relative to veterans' affairs
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB137 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1117932)
+2. **HB137 Act 390** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144625)
+3. **HB137 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132581)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2384, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132384)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2400, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132477)
+6. **HB137 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141398)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#837) — **37–1** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#456) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- James Armes — primary (person)
+- Steve Pugh — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
+- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 390. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-31** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
+- **2019-05-09** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-08** Reported with amendments (12-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ec052ec-3ab4-49ad-abff-8a00dfee92a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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