---
type: "Bill"
title: "VETERANS: Provides relative to veterans cemeteries burial fees"
description: "VETERANS: Provides relative to veterans cemeteries burial fees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 527"
citation: "Louisiana HB 527 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peter Egan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b24d638-3c35-4090-85fe-45e854486309"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246285"
source_hash: "84551a18e82390b793539ffcabbe6879bc1b5e0a026e5075c23c6c83c16ed1db"
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 527 (2024) — VETERANS: Provides relative to veterans cemeteries burial fees

## Version chain

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

1. **HB527 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351369)
2. **HB527 Act 78** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375971)
3. **HB527 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359484)
4. **HB527 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372575)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#310) — **100–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#570) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Peter Egan — primary (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. 78. `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 38 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. 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 1. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **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 (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b24d638-3c35-4090-85fe-45e854486309`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).