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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "VETERANS: Provides relative to Louisiana veterans cemeteries"
+description: "VETERANS: Provides relative to Louisiana veterans cemeteries"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 231"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 231 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Buddy Mincey"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-27"
+last_action: "2023-06-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4faa791f-93aa-49a3-8138-513e2d0d1fae"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244103"
+source_hash: "b9f95a01462b5aeedb1b9d13529e37c56d6378b12ac762f10a350a9b0288ba5b"
+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 231 (2023) — VETERANS: Provides relative to Louisiana veterans cemeteries
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB231 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306107)
+2. **HB231 Act 69** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331580)
+3. **HB231 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318570)
+4. **HB231 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326523)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#505) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#390) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Buddy Mincey — primary (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
+- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 69. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-15** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2023.
+- **2023-05-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-03** Reported favorably (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
+- **2023-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4faa791f-93aa-49a3-8138-513e2d0d1fae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+