---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDENT/TUITION: Provides for a tuition waiver for certain disabled veterans (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)"
description: "STUDENT/TUITION: Provides for a tuition waiver for certain disabled veterans (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 167"
citation: "Louisiana HB 167 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kenny Cox"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-23"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e68b4b75-9422-4712-995d-b2fcb58728f9"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244025"
source_hash: "d265fe2b623fccee44e34993321a3f5439faf7584f3f5434f2767f397b5dd7f7"
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 167 (2023) — STUDENT/TUITION: Provides for a tuition waiver for certain disabled veterans (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB167 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1304921)
2. **HB167 Act 224** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332285)
3. **HB167 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314258)
4. **HB167 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324629)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1407, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313419)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1520, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314126)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3029, Beaullieu, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322516)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #731, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314365)
9. **HB167 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329426)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#553) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#681) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kenny Cox — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 224. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-30** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
- **2023-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-23** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2023.
- **2023-05-16** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-04-20** Reported with amendments (10-0) with recommendation to recommit to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
- **2023-03-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e68b4b75-9422-4712-995d-b2fcb58728f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).