---
type: "Bill"
title: "VETERANS: Requires the office of vital records to share data regarding veterans (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "VETERANS: Requires the office of vital records to share data regarding veterans (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 620"
citation: "Louisiana HB 620 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary Carter"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-02"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05b9f865-2528-4537-a0ef-d0c8aec07f1b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234098"
source_hash: "c9934b2d94b4c4488ce423181951599c6f63a14a925ea8baa4f596f2e65d1651"
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 620 (2018) — VETERANS: Requires the office of vital records to share data regarding veterans (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB620 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1073014)
2. **HB620 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096992)
3. **HB620 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075086)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1238, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075043)
5. **HB620 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093076)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#723) — **32–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#78) — **89–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gary Carter — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Chris Leopold — cosponsor (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Greg Cromer — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
- Jim Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — 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)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Stokes — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Huval — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Steven E. Pylant — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor F. Barras — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 99. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-03** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-25** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2018-03-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/21/18.
- **2018-03-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-14** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `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/05b9f865-2528-4537-a0ef-d0c8aec07f1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).