---
type: "Bill"
title: "VETERANS: Provides relative to veterans' affairs"
description: "VETERANS: Provides relative to veterans' affairs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 137"
citation: "Louisiana HB 137 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Armes"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-25"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ec052ec-3ab4-49ad-abff-8a00dfee92a0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235815"
source_hash: "c4340eb0a14bcdb506ae4b3ee58358796b7b060aa6b3a4fc59ceda956c902702"
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 137 (2019) — VETERANS: Provides relative to veterans' affairs

## Version chain

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

1. **HB137 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1117932)
2. **HB137 Act 390** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144625)
3. **HB137 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132581)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2384, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132384)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2400, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132477)
6. **HB137 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141398)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#837) — **37–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#456) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- James Armes — primary (person)
- Steve Pugh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 390. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
- **2019-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-31** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
- **2019-05-09** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-08** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ec052ec-3ab4-49ad-abff-8a00dfee92a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).