---
type: "Bill"
title: "MILITARY AFFAIRS: Adds the U.S. Space Force to various statutory definitions of U.S. Armed Forces"
description: "MILITARY AFFAIRS: Adds the U.S. Space Force to various statutory definitions of U.S. Armed Forces"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 96"
citation: "Louisiana HB 96 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alonzo Knox"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-24"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06116ee3-bb1b-4456-8c6d-8cc39c9fe831"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247993"
source_hash: "ab54a0bd2bff28baf69ed95b7b8fe7f337b7924cfcf99b86688d5660d8124d0f"
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 96 (2025) — MILITARY AFFAIRS: Adds the U.S. Space Force to various statutory definitions of U.S. Armed Forces

## Version chain

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

1. **HB96 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1397948)
2. **HB96 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425035)
3. **HB96 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410198)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1953, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416261)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1987, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416376)
6. **HB96 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421182)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#798) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#458) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#285) — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 137. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-03** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-21** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended.
- **2025-05-20** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-08** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2025.
- **2025-05-05** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Reported favorably (16-0). `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.
- **2025-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/06116ee3-bb1b-4456-8c6d-8cc39c9fe831`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).