---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs"
description: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 494"
citation: "Louisiana HB 494 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Hazel"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-02"
last_action: "2018-05-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8326f8ea-870f-406a-917c-be52bb2ca2c9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233925"
source_hash: "6e600ad2c407da2086d7a107e950ea9ed2a8bedfbaf8b6059b28a5b55fc081b1"
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 494 (2018) — SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs

## Version chain

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

1. **HB494 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1072261)
2. **HB494 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097937)
3. **HB494 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080625)
4. **HB494 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1091948)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#328) — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#619) — **35–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chris Hazel — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-11** Effective date: 06/30/2018.
- **2018-05-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 133. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-01** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-04-30** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-25** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-24** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-09** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/18.
- **2018-04-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-29** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8326f8ea-870f-406a-917c-be52bb2ca2c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).