republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-159.md

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Bill	VETERANS: Creates the Preserving Lawful Utilization of Services for Veterans Act. (gov sig)	VETERANS: Creates the Preserving Lawful Utilization of Services for Veterans Act. (gov sig)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 159	Louisiana SB 159 (2024)	bill		enacted	Stewart Cathey , Jr.	8	18	2	2024-02-29	2024-06-03	openstates	ocd-bill/fe322d2d-66c0-40b4-a4cf-ec967da1c44f	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246181	3ba56a66655e0ac6b3c95b384c9a9ea4259a0d5c29b716bf238986da1e99ca78	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 159 (2024) — VETERANS: Creates the Preserving Lawful Utilization of Services for Veterans Act. (gov sig)

Version chain

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

1. SB159 Original (filed) — source
2. SB159 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. SB159 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. SB159 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Committee Amendment, #1994, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #2064, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Floor Amendment, #2393, Cathey, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. SB159 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#401) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1139) — 87–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-03 Effective date 6/3/2024.
• 2024-06-03 Becomes Act No. 479 without the Governor's signature. became-law
• 2024-05-23 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-22 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2024-05-21 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2024-05-20 Received from the House without amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-20 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 9. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-05-15 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2024.
• 2024-05-07 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-05-06 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-05-01 Reported favorably (9-3-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-25 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-04-23 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
• 2024-04-22 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-04-17 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fe322d2d-66c0-40b4-a4cf-ec967da1c44f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).