---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Veterans Affairs. (6/30/22)"
description: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Veterans Affairs. (6/30/22)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 171"
citation: "Louisiana SB 171 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fde698f2-30a0-4108-917b-2de769c26bec"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242087"
source_hash: "489a4755bfadbcaf1f0dab36c8b2e401c8f439b962e78a3e01d241b21f3a0683"
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 SB 171 (2022) — SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Veterans Affairs. (6/30/22)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB171 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1254648)
2. **SB171 Act 183** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286283)
3. **SB171 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263568)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1087, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262879)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1185, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263553)
6. **SB171 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1282737)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#151) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1090) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date 6/30/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 183. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/27/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-25** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-24** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2022-05-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2022.
- **2022-05-10** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-05** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-05** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-04** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-29** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fde698f2-30a0-4108-917b-2de769c26bec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).