RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 15 (HB 101) 2020 Regular Session Carpenter
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)) generally provides that all employees of housing authorities
are in the classified state civil service 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 authorities in New Orleans, Cottonport, Denham
Springs, Oil City, and Lafayette shall not be considered instrumentalities of the state for
purposes of Const. Art. X, §1(A) and that employees of the authorities are not in the state
civil service. New law adds the East Baton Rouge Parish Housing Authority to the list of
authorities not considered instrumentalities of the state for purposes of Const. Art. X, §1(A)
and provides that authority employees are not in the state civil service.
Effective Aug. 1, 2020.
(Adds R.S. 40:539(C)(8)(g))