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type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates a certain portion of Interstate Highway 20 in Webster Parish as the \"Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway\""
description: "HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates a certain portion of Interstate Highway 20 in Webster Parish as the \"Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 70"
citation: "Louisiana HB 70 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wayne McMahen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-14"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13904719-45e5-46fa-a7bc-c593dc49f203"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241595"
source_hash: "d96c8b46aa24069051e5d95fa6efff1f50f8567b2d8c453647b434bc66f8a26e"
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 70 (2022) — HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates a certain portion of Interstate Highway 20 in Webster Parish as the "Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway"
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB70 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1247445)
2. **HB70 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280911)
3. **HB70 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259704)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1275, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259474)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1289, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259625)
6. **HB70 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278400)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#538) — **350** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#34) — **860** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Wayne McMahen — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 24. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/22/2022.
- **2022-03-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-16** Reported with amendments (9-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-18** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/18/2022.
- **2022-02-14** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/13904719-45e5-46fa-a7bc-c593dc49f203`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).