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LouisianaHB 3872025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

VETERANS: Provides relative to care for nonveterans

Sponsored By: Kellee Hennessy Dickerson (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Health and WelfareJudiciary

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Nonveterans can face Louisiana veterans facility charges

The law extends Louisiana’s Department of Veterans Affairs authority to charge for facility care to nonveteran residents, alongside veterans. The department can charge reasonable rates to residents able to pay for some or all of their care. It must set the charging system through rules that consider each resident’s income and estate. The law sets no specific rates.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Kellee Hennessy Dickerson

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Gerald "Beau" Beaullieu IV

    Republican • House

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Beth Anne Billings

    Republican • House

  • C. Denise Marcelle

    Democratic • House

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Michael "Gabe" Firment

    Republican • House

  • Jason Brian DeWitt

    Republican • House

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Mike Johnson

    Republican • House

  • Pat Moore

    Democratic • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • R. Dewith Carrier

    Republican • House

  • Rhonda Gaye Butler

    Republican • House

  • Robby Carter

    Democratic • House

  • Shane Mack

    Republican • House

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

  • Vanessa Caston LaFleur

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 145 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/29/2025

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

House vote • 5/5/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 95 • No: 0

House vote • 4/24/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 13 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 191.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/8/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/3/2025House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    6/2/2025House

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

    6/2/2025House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/2/2025Senate

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/29/2025Senate

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

    5/28/2025Senate

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/27/2025Senate

  10. Rules suspended. Reported favorably.

    5/21/2025Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    5/7/2025Senate

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

    5/6/2025Senate

  13. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/5/2025House

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

    4/28/2025House

  15. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2025.

    4/28/2025House

  16. Reported favorably (13-0).

    4/24/2025House

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

    4/14/2025House

  18. Prefiled.

    4/3/2025House

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

    4/3/2025House

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