republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-61.md

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Bill	VETERANS: Provides relative to National Guard death and disability benefits (EN NO IMPACT See Note)	VETERANS: Provides relative to National Guard death and disability benefits (EN NO IMPACT See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 61	Louisiana HB 61 (2024)	bill		enacted	Dodie Horton	8	20	2	2024-02-06	2024-05-22	openstates	ocd-bill/81c301e2-0d3a-4c5e-b622-2f8f704a2fb0	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245582	4520129c167e8aa246ab19b86c2dadabd2096a855c88bc8bdf212555ed8cba14	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 61 (2024) — VETERANS: Provides relative to National Guard death and disability benefits (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB61 Original (filed) — source
2. HB61 Act 128 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB61 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB61 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1294, JUD, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2041, JUD, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1453, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. HB61 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#636) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#281) — 102–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dodie Horton — primary (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
• C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
• Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
• Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
• Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-22 Effective date: 05/22/2024.
• 2024-05-22 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 128. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-16 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-16 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-15 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-14 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-13 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
• 2024-05-06 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-01 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-04-30 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-16 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-15 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-04 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-03 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
• 2024-04-03 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-02 Reported with amendments (15-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2024-02-09 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/9/2024.
• 2024-02-06 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2024-02-06 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/81c301e2-0d3a-4c5e-b622-2f8f704a2fb0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).