---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX/INCOME TAX: Exempts military survivor benefit plan payments from state individual income tax (EN -$1,500,000 GF RV See Note)"
description: "TAX/INCOME TAX: Exempts military survivor benefit plan payments from state individual income tax (EN -$1,500,000 GF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 200"
citation: "Louisiana HB 200 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-24"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba156e5f-a95d-4a96-a932-5bc5550f3828"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240037"
source_hash: "1e3ce2a60c6f9378c0fead27722c87cc6a6e7c43cd0df232a210b1ff987e4890"
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 200 (2021) — TAX/INCOME TAX: Exempts military survivor benefit plan payments from state individual income tax (EN -$1,500,000 GF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB200 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206473)
2. **HB200 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235119)
3. **HB200 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217205)
4. **HB200 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221693)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1822, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218234)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1089, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217630)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2482, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227158)
8. **HB200 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230342)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#528) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#887) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#273) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart J. Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 185. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-01** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/01/2021.
- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-20** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-05** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
- **2021-05-04** Notice given.
- **2021-04-29** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2021.
- **2021-04-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-26** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba156e5f-a95d-4a96-a932-5bc5550f3828`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).