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+type: "Bill"
+title: "VETERANS: Establishes the position of director of medical affairs of the Department of Veterans Affairs"
+description: "VETERANS: Establishes the position of director of medical affairs of the Department of Veterans Affairs"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 528"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 528 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Peter Egan"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3551ce9-cefe-42a6-b957-c0a5a13ddfa2"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246286"
+source_hash: "969a2f62e57f2454d5830cb80e7bf44e7a708fa9dab00ca685c345edce4e688d"
+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 528 (2024) — VETERANS: Establishes the position of director of medical affairs of the Department of Veterans Affairs
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB528 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351371)
+2. **HB528 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382307)
+3. **HB528 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364724)
+4. **HB528 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379101)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#582) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1233) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Peter Egan — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 566. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-21** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2024.
+- **2024-04-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-11** Reported favorably (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d3551ce9-cefe-42a6-b957-c0a5a13ddfa2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+