---
type: "Bill"
title: "MILITARY AFFAIRS/NATL GD: Provides relative to death benefits for members of the La. State Guard (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "MILITARY AFFAIRS/NATL GD: Provides relative to death benefits for members of the La. State Guard (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 120"
citation: "Louisiana HB 120 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffery \"Jeff\" Wiley"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-25"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78b9e12c-c70e-4b95-9160-aa2e39295412"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248019"
source_hash: "86bc4613c580e7f9e9d8c550f3b24e1dfcb19c51373c28e3dd0ab0fa936f7474"
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 120 (2025) — MILITARY AFFAIRS/NATL GD: Provides relative to death benefits for members of the La. State Guard (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB120 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1398518)
2. **HB120 Act 242** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425549)
3. **HB120 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415459)
4. **HB120 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416684)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2993, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415452)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3196, Wiley, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416342)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3197, Wiley, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416345)
8. **HB120 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422807)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#499) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#689) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — primary (person)
- Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 242. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
- **2025-05-19** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-15** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/28/2025.
- **2025-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78b9e12c-c70e-4b95-9160-aa2e39295412`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).