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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates a certain portion of Interstate Highway 20 in Webster Parish as the \"Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway\""
+description: "HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates a certain portion of Interstate Highway 20 in Webster Parish as the \"Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway\""
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 70"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 70 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Wayne McMahen"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-02-14"
+last_action: "2022-05-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13904719-45e5-46fa-a7bc-c593dc49f203"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241595"
+source_hash: "d96c8b46aa24069051e5d95fa6efff1f50f8567b2d8c453647b434bc66f8a26e"
+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 70 (2022) — HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates a certain portion of Interstate Highway 20 in Webster Parish as the "Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway"
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB70 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1247445)
+2. **HB70 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280911)
+3. **HB70 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259704)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1275, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259474)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1289, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259625)
+6. **HB70 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278400)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#538) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#34) — **86–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Wayne McMahen — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
+- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
+- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 24. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2022-05-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2022-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably.
+- **2022-03-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2022-03-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2022-03-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/22/2022.
+- **2022-03-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2022-03-16** Reported with amendments (9-0).
+- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-18** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/18/2022.
+- **2022-02-14** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-14** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/13904719-45e5-46fa-a7bc-c593dc49f203`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+