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+type: "Bill"
+title: "VETERANS: Provides relative to National Guard death and disability benefits (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "VETERANS: Provides relative to National Guard death and disability benefits (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 61"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 61 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dodie Horton"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-06"
+last_action: "2024-05-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81c301e2-0d3a-4c5e-b622-2f8f704a2fb0"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245582"
+source_hash: "4520129c167e8aa246ab19b86c2dadabd2096a855c88bc8bdf212555ed8cba14"
+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 61 (2024) — VETERANS: Provides relative to National Guard death and disability benefits (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB61 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1342277)
+2. **HB61 Act 128** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378143)
+3. **HB61 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359992)
+4. **HB61 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362652)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1294, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354884)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2041, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359610)
+7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1453, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360550)
+8. **HB61 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374152)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#636) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#281) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dodie Horton — primary (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
+- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-22** Effective date: 05/22/2024.
+- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 128. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-04** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
+- **2024-04-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-02** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-09** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/9/2024.
+- **2024-02-06** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-06** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81c301e2-0d3a-4c5e-b622-2f8f704a2fb0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+