RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 127 (HB 133) 2016 Regular Session Jim Morris
Existing constitution (Art. X, §1(A)) provides that state civil service includes all persons
holding offices and positions of trust or employment in the employ of the state, or any
instrumentality thereof, or any joint state-federal, state-parochial, or state-municipal agency.
Excludes members of the state police service and persons holding offices and positions of
any municipal board of health or local governmental subdivision.
Existing law (R.S. 40:539(C)(8)) provides that employees of housing authorities shall be in
the classified state civil service, except as provided in the constitution or as may be
authorized by the State Civil Service Commission and except for authority members, the
executive director, one other employee whom the authority designates, and professional
employees employed on a contract basis.
Existing law provides that the Housing Authority of New Orleans, the Cottonport Housing
Authority, and the housing authority of Denham Springs shall not be considered
instrumentalities of the state for purposes of Const. Art. X, §1(A) and that employees of the
authorities shall not be included in the state civil service. New law adds the Housing
Authority of Oil City to those whose employees are not in the state civil service.
Effective August 1, 2016.
(Adds R.S. 40:539(C)(8)(e))