---
type: "Bill"
title: "MILITARY AFFAIRS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Military Advisory Council"
description: "MILITARY AFFAIRS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Military Advisory Council"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 181"
citation: "Louisiana HB 181 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Armes"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-27"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1cb497c0-8623-4ecb-a452-30a3494a97aa"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233415"
source_hash: "799ac9a8fd1ee0bc92002a2acc926803cb1b41be41a11e20f5f667c932ced5f0"
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 181 (2018) — MILITARY AFFAIRS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Military Advisory Council

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB181 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1068383)
2. **HB181 Act 197** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099053)
3. **HB181 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075369)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2992, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1088767)
5. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3236, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1090348)
6. **HB181 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094603)

## Votes

- HB 181 BY ARMES (#609) — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#105) — **86–0** (pass) · legislature
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#802) — **91–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- James Armes — primary (person)
- Andy Anders — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Norton — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Chris Hazel — cosponsor (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (person)
- Frankie Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome "Dee" Richard — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Johnny Berthelot — cosponsor (person)
- John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
- John E. "Johnny" Guinn — cosponsor (person)
- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Havard — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Huval — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Rob Shadoin — cosponsor (person)
- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Steven E. Pylant — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor F. Barras — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 197. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 91, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2018-05-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/08/18.
- **2018-05-01** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2018-04-30** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-26** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-25** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-24** Reported with amendments.
- **2018-03-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/22/18.
- **2018-03-19** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-15** Reported favorably (9-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1cb497c0-8623-4ecb-a452-30a3494a97aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).