---
type: "Bill"
title: "PARKS: Provides for the location of the Louisiana Vietnam Veterans Memorial. (gov sig)"
description: "PARKS: Provides for the location of the Louisiana Vietnam Veterans Memorial. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 245"
citation: "Louisiana SB 245 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeremy Stine"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0c73146-e4d2-408c-ac58-5dbfde7afc66"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246468"
source_hash: "af46819b6cbdc640521d0eb9d80011107b202725817a7eec3e9e6233600bd6ef"
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 245 (2024) — PARKS: Provides for the location of the Louisiana Vietnam Veterans Memorial. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB245 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352305)
2. **SB245 Act 760** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382650)
3. **SB245 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356077)
4. **SB245 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378460)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#153) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1352) — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jeremy Stine — primary (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Brett Geymann — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date 6/19/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 760. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-20** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-20** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d0c73146-e4d2-408c-ac58-5dbfde7afc66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).