---
type: "Bill"
title: "VETERANS: Provides relative to educational benefits for children, spouses, and surviving spouses of certain veterans. (gov sig) (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)"
description: "VETERANS: Provides relative to educational benefits for children, spouses, and surviving spouses of certain veterans. (gov sig) (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 115"
citation: "Louisiana SB 115 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gerald Boudreaux"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f0a79a1-ac26-479a-907d-1f0aa8f88517"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244343"
source_hash: "345372fdcaf237f7a25ab248c90ef8dab8126b2b88cb42ab15197ad17131f41d"
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 SB 115 (2023) — VETERANS: Provides relative to educational benefits for children, spouses, and surviving spouses of certain veterans. (gov sig) (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB115 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308637)
2. **SB115 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329081)
3. **SB115 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317087)
4. **SB115 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318213)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1020, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316656)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1063, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317009)
7. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1204, Boudreaux, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318034)
8. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1078, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317152)
9. **SB115 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326731)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#706) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#172) — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#171) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gerald Boudreaux — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-01** Effective date 6/1/2023.
- **2023-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 46. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-05-30** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-29** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2023.
- **2023-05-16** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-11** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-02** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f0a79a1-ac26-479a-907d-1f0aa8f88517`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).