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+type: "Bill"
+title: "MILITARY AFFAIRS/NATL GD: Provides relative to death benefits for members of the La. State Guard (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
+description: "MILITARY AFFAIRS/NATL GD: Provides relative to death benefits for members of the La. State Guard (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 120"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 120 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jeffery \"Jeff\" Wiley"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-25"
+last_action: "2025-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78b9e12c-c70e-4b95-9160-aa2e39295412"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248019"
+source_hash: "86bc4613c580e7f9e9d8c550f3b24e1dfcb19c51373c28e3dd0ab0fa936f7474"
+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 120 (2025) — MILITARY AFFAIRS/NATL GD: Provides relative to death benefits for members of the La. State Guard (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB120 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1398518)
+2. **HB120 Act 242** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425549)
+3. **HB120 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415459)
+4. **HB120 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416684)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2993, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415452)
+6. **House Floor Amendment, #3196, Wiley, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416342)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #3197, Wiley, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416345)
+8. **HB120 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422807)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#499) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#689) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — primary (person)
+- Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
+- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
+- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 242. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-03** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
+- **2025-05-19** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-15** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/28/2025.
+- **2025-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78b9e12c-c70e-4b95-9160-aa2e39295412`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+