---
type: "Bill"
title: "VETERANS: Provides relative to veterans' service offices (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
description: "VETERANS: Provides relative to veterans' service offices (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 373"
citation: "Louisiana HB 373 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kellee Dickerson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d64f8e03-03b1-483c-a5de-394913248df1"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246058"
source_hash: "684e56b3b3bafe37efcacd33191b752a0992e5eeb6c24794c991ccf0716dc31b"
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 373 (2024) — VETERANS: Provides relative to veterans' service offices (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB373 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350121)
2. **HB373 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381903)
3. **HB373 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364720)
4. **HB373 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376816)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#574) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#995) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kellee Dickerson — primary (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 425. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-20** 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`
- **2024-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2024.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-11** Reported favorably (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d64f8e03-03b1-483c-a5de-394913248df1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).