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LouisianaHB 1162025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

MILITARY AFFAIRS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Military Family Assistance Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)

Sponsored By: Peter F. Egan Sr. (Republican)

Signed by Governor

FinanceJudiciary

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

More burial and expense help for veterans

Louisiana's Military Family Assistance Board can use the fund to pay burial costs for indigent veterans or their spouses. Before death, the person must have received public assistance, lived in public housing, or earned below 200% of federal poverty guidelines. Public assistance includes food stamps, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Medicaid, or disability insurance. Burial payments are at the board's discretion. The fund also can pay necessary expenses for eligible beneficiaries under R.S. 29:288, subject to R.S. 29:289 limits. The law does not state payment amounts or list the other covered expenses.

Veteran nonprofits get grants with spending rules

Louisiana's Military Family Assistance Board can award fund grants for veterans' and families' education, mental health, or housing needs. Eligible nonprofits must have 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status and have existed for at least three years. Each one-time grant is capped at $10,000, with total grants capped at $100,000 per fiscal year. Applicants must submit a specific project proposal and spend grants only under the board-approved proposal and budget. Grants cannot serve as collateral or pay other financial obligations, including interest on credit lines. They also cannot cover cash-flow needs or general operating costs unrelated to the grant's purpose. Recipients must submit a final spending report and keep all related receipts and records for at least four years afterward. Money not used for the grant's purpose must be repaid within 30 days after the final report is submitted. Recipients must allow audits by the board and Louisiana Legislative Auditor.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

  • Annie Spell

    Republican • House

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Dodie Horton

    Republican • House

  • Francis C. Thompson

    Republican • House

  • Joe Stagni

    Affiliation unavailable

  • John E. Wyble

    Republican • House

  • Julie Emerson

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Kellee Hennessy Dickerson

    Republican • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Paula Davis

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Raymond J. Crews

    Republican • House

  • Steven Jackson

    Democratic • House

  • Sylvia Elaine Taylor

    Democratic • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 148 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/8/2025

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.

Yes: 38 • No: 0

House vote • 5/20/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 5/15/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 13 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 241.

    6/11/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/11/2025House

  3. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/9/2025House

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/9/2025Senate

  5. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/9/2025House

  6. 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.

    6/8/2025Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    6/8/2025House

  8. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    6/4/2025Senate

  9. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    6/4/2025Senate

  10. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance.

    5/27/2025Senate

  11. Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    5/21/2025Senate

  12. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/20/2025House

  13. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/19/2025House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.

    5/19/2025House

  15. Reported with amendments (13-0).

    5/15/2025House

  16. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

    4/14/2025House

  17. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/28/2025.

    3/28/2025House

  18. Prefiled.

    3/25/2025House

  19. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

    3/25/2025House

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