---
type: "Bill"
title: "VETERANS: Establishes the position of director of medical affairs of the Department of Veterans Affairs"
description: "VETERANS: Establishes the position of director of medical affairs of the Department of Veterans Affairs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 528"
citation: "Louisiana HB 528 (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: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3551ce9-cefe-42a6-b957-c0a5a13ddfa2"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246286"
source_hash: "969a2f62e57f2454d5830cb80e7bf44e7a708fa9dab00ca685c345edce4e688d"
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 528 (2024) — VETERANS: Establishes the position of director of medical affairs of the Department of Veterans Affairs

## Version chain

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

1. **HB528 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351371)
2. **HB528 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382307)
3. **HB528 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364724)
4. **HB528 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379101)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#582) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1233) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Peter Egan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 566. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-21** 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 98, 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 (16-0). `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/d3551ce9-cefe-42a6-b957-c0a5a13ddfa2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).