Veteran Owned Business and SDVOSB Certifications in Louisiana

Louisiana (LA) Small Business Certification Programs: Below you’ll find Veteran Owned Business (VOB) Certification, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Certifications and Disabled Veteran Owned Business Enterprise (DVBE) Certification resources for the State of Louisiana including certificate and verification programs at the county and city level. Let us know if there’s one missing!

State of Louisiana Veteran Owned Business Certification:

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana will create a new program that certifies businesses that are owned by veterans or their surviving spouses.

Consumers will be able to search a database to find those businesses, under the bill that won final passage Sunday with a 98-0 House vote.

The legislation creates the Veterans First Business Initiative in the state’s economic development agency.

The department will certify the businesses and create an insignia for them to use. It will display a searchable database on its website for customers who want to find vendors owned by veterans or the spouses of veterans killed while on duty.

The measure by Baton Rouge Republican Rep. Franklin Foil goes to Gov. John Bel Edwards, a former Army Ranger who supports the legislation.

House Bill 391: www.legis.la.gov

VETERANS: Provides for the certification of veteran-owned businesses (EGF INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Current Status: Signed by the Governor - Act 160

Date	Chamber	Journal Page	Action
06/06	H		Effective date: 08/01/2019.
06/06	H		Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 160.
06/05	H		Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
06/04	S	79	Signed by the President of the Senate.
06/03	H	107	Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
06/02	H	15	Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
05/31	H		Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/19.
05/30	H	2	Received from the Senate with amendments.
05/29	S	26	Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
05/27	S	5	Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
05/23	S	15	Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
05/22	S	28	Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
04/25	S	5	Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs.
04/24	S	16	Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
04/24	H	15	Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
04/17	H		Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/19.
04/17	H	8	Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
04/16	H	9	Reported with amendments (17-0).
04/08	H	51	Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.
03/29	H		Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce.
03/29	H		Prefiled.

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