---
type: "Bill"
title: "MILITARY AFFAIRS: Provides relative to survivors' education benefits (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)"
description: "MILITARY AFFAIRS: Provides relative to survivors' education benefits (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 385"
citation: "Louisiana HB 385 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d7b6c2f-f336-49ab-b841-edcb0b415e65"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246070"
source_hash: "7dada1237484d473139d8740bc1b7d0be3fadecbd5bdf151a224d9e811b66bec"
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 385 (2024) — MILITARY AFFAIRS: Provides relative to survivors' education benefits (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB385 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350138)
2. **HB385 Act 74** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375966)
3. **HB385 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359485)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #2590, Owen, Charles, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363340)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2598, Owen, Charles, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363386)
6. **HB385 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372563)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#567) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#329) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles Owen — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 74. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-07** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-07** 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`
- **2024-04-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-23** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2024.
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-02** 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/7d7b6c2f-f336-49ab-b841-edcb0b415e65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).