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LouisianaHB 1202025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

MILITARY AFFAIRS/NATL GD: Provides relative to death benefits for members of the La. State Guard (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Jeffrey "Jeff" Wiley (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary BJudiciary

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Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

State Guard gains death and disability benefits

The law extends Louisiana National Guard death and disability benefits to Louisiana State Guard members. Coverage applies to members called to active duty by the governor or U.S. president. Disability benefits require discharge or release from all federal and state service under honorable or general under honorable conditions. Death claims, with supporting documents, go to the Louisiana National Guard for its members or Louisiana Military Department for State Guard members. Disability claims go to the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs. Death-benefit forms must name beneficiaries, specify a lump-sum payment, and be signed before a Guard witness ranked E-7 or higher. The forms stay in personnel files; DD Form 93 can be used when no state beneficiary form exists.

More school protections for military students

The law protects student service members from unnecessary disruption of their education after high school because of military service. Coverage includes Louisiana State Guard members and National Guard members from other states and territories. These protections align with public college policies for students who are mobilized or activated.

Stronger job protections for military members

Employers cannot deny reservists or state military members jobs, continued work, promotions, or work benefits because of military obligations. This includes Louisiana National Guard and State Guard members. Reemployment rights also cover qualifying state active duty called by Louisiana's governor or another state's governor. Covered uniformed services include federal armed forces, Louisiana military forces, and National Guards from other states and territories. Covered service includes active duty, training, full-time National Guard duty, fitness-exam absences, and service under the War Powers Resolution. The law requires these protections to be read broadly in favor of service members.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Jeffrey "Jeff" Wiley

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Annie Spell

    Republican • House

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Beth Anne Billings

    Republican • House

  • Candace N. Newell

    Democratic • House

  • Charles Owen

    Republican • House

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Debbie Villio

    Republican • House

  • Dodie Horton

    Republican • House

  • Francis C. Thompson

    Republican • House

  • Michael "Gabe" Firment

    Republican • House

  • Joe Stagni

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Pat Moore

    Democratic • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • Phillip DeVillier

    Republican • House

  • Rhonda Gaye Butler

    Republican • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

  • Timothy P. Kerner

    Republican • House

  • Tony Bacala

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 149 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/8/2025

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

House vote • 5/20/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 98 • No: 0

House vote • 5/15/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 15 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 242.

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

    6/4/2025Senate

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

    6/3/2025Senate

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

    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 98, 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 (15-0).

    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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