---
type: "Bill"
title: "VETERANS: Provides relative to healthcare facilities operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs for war veterans (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)"
description: "VETERANS: Provides relative to healthcare facilities operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs for war veterans (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 60"
citation: "Louisiana HB 60 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Galle"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-13"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ca0d2ce-cd51-4d54-a2d0-228bfd4e4191"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247947"
source_hash: "291b93feea16061815eb26fcf8f2cd2e8ed379ac0b77d5f305e25357a1994a31"
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 60 (2025) — VETERANS: Provides relative to healthcare facilities operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs for war veterans (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB60 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1396590)
2. **HB60 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425025)
3. **HB60 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408198)
4. **HB60 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419684)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#479) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#173) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jay Galle — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox 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. 132. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 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, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, 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 (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/14/2025.
- **2025-03-13** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ca0d2ce-cd51-4d54-a2d0-228bfd4e4191`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).