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+type: "Bill"
+title: "VETERANS: Provides relative to educational benefits for beneficiaries of qualified veterans (EN +$100,000 GF EX See Note)"
+description: "VETERANS: Provides relative to educational benefits for beneficiaries of qualified veterans (EN +$100,000 GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 766"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 766 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alonzo Knox"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-25"
+last_action: "2024-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/126e998c-f678-4027-8c3b-866f05c93c94"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246836"
+source_hash: "f476ed30de9fba13fb58e2504e9ab9dae5372a7e501f4a2788f1277a529e02b2"
+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 766 (2024) — VETERANS: Provides relative to educational benefits for beneficiaries of qualified veterans (EN +$100,000 GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB766 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357354)
+2. **HB766 Act 637** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382366)
+3. **HB766 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367046)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #3013, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365460)
+5. **HB766 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380653)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1367) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#828) — **93–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alonzo Knox — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 637. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-30** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
+- **2024-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended.
+- **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-28** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-28** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
+- **2024-05-15** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
+- **2024-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-01** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-05-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/2024.
+- **2024-04-30** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-29** Reported favorably (17-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2024-04-18** Reported favorably (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-26** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-25** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/126e998c-f678-4027-8c3b-866f05c93c94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+