---
type: "Bill"
title: "VETERANS: Provides relative to the Civilian Honor Medal Program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)"
description: "VETERANS: Provides relative to the Civilian Honor Medal Program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 468"
citation: "Louisiana HB 468 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daryl Adams"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e4467af-d765-4980-94f3-56f0d9ca2aca"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248482"
source_hash: "2cf8d0f24257a4c9bd7be83bef9f1db79e7c7c3542e0334d68d3f46d5134e70d"
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 468 (2025) — VETERANS: Provides relative to the Civilian Honor Medal Program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB468 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403805)
2. **HB468 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425125)
3. **HB468 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408211)
4. **HB468 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411363)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1780, Adams, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408811)
6. **HB468 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420227)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#189) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#518) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daryl Adams — primary (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 197. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2025.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e4467af-d765-4980-94f3-56f0d9ca2aca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).