---
type: "Bill"
title: "VETERANS: Provides relative to Louisiana veterans cemeteries"
description: "VETERANS: Provides relative to Louisiana veterans cemeteries"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 231"
citation: "Louisiana HB 231 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buddy Mincey"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-27"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4faa791f-93aa-49a3-8138-513e2d0d1fae"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244103"
source_hash: "b9f95a01462b5aeedb1b9d13529e37c56d6378b12ac762f10a350a9b0288ba5b"
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 231 (2023) — VETERANS: Provides relative to Louisiana veterans cemeteries

## Version chain

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

1. **HB231 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306107)
2. **HB231 Act 69** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331580)
3. **HB231 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318570)
4. **HB231 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326523)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#505) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#390) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Buddy Mincey — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 69. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2023.
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** Reported favorably (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4faa791f-93aa-49a3-8138-513e2d0d1fae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).