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+type: "Bill"
+title: "VETERANS: Provides relative to educational benefits for children, spouses, and surviving spouses of certain veterans. (gov sig) (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)"
+description: "VETERANS: Provides relative to educational benefits for children, spouses, and surviving spouses of certain veterans. (gov sig) (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 115"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 115 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gerald Boudreaux"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-03-30"
+last_action: "2023-06-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f0a79a1-ac26-479a-907d-1f0aa8f88517"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244343"
+source_hash: "345372fdcaf237f7a25ab248c90ef8dab8126b2b88cb42ab15197ad17131f41d"
+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 SB 115 (2023) — VETERANS: Provides relative to educational benefits for children, spouses, and surviving spouses of certain veterans. (gov sig) (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB115 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308637)
+2. **SB115 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329081)
+3. **SB115 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317087)
+4. **SB115 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318213)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1020, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316656)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1063, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317009)
+7. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1204, Boudreaux, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318034)
+8. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1078, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317152)
+9. **SB115 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326731)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#706) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#172) — **31–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#171) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gerald Boudreaux — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
+- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-01** Effective date 6/1/2023.
+- **2023-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 46. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2023-05-30** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-29** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-05-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2023.
+- **2023-05-16** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2023-05-11** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-03** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2023-05-02** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-01** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-30** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f0a79a1-ac26-479a-907d-1f0aa8f88517`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+