SLS 20RS-343 ORIGINAL
2020 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 436
BY SENATOR JACKSON
CIVIL SERVICE. Removes the employees of the Monroe Housing Authority from state
civil service. (8/1/20)
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 40:539(C)(8)(g), relative to employees of the Housing Authority of Monroe;
3 to provide that employees of the authority shall not be in the state civil service; and
4 to provide for related matters.
5 Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 40:539(C)(8)(g) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
8 ยง539. Selection of chairman and vice chairman; executive director; hiring of
9 employees
10 * * *
11 C. * * *
12 (8) * * *
13 (g) Notwithstanding any provision of Subparagraph (a) of this
14 Paragraph or of any other law to the contrary, the Housing Authority of
15 Monroe shall not be considered to be an instrumentality of the state for
16 purposes of Article X, Section 1(A) of the Constitution of Louisiana, and
17 employees of the authority shall not be included in the state civil service.
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SLS 20RS-343 ORIGINAL
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michael Bell.
DIGEST
SB 436 Original 2020 Regular Session Jackson
Present constitution establishes the state civil service and provides that it includes all persons
holding offices and positions of trust or employment in the employ of the state, or any
instrumentality thereof, and any joint state and federal agency, joint state and parochial
agency, or joint state and municipal agency, regardless of the source of the funds used to pay
for such employment. Provides an exception for members of the state police service and
persons holding offices and positions of any municipal board of health or local governmental
subdivision.
Present law provides that except as provided in the constitution and as may otherwise be
authorized by the State Civil Service Commission, all employees of a public housing
authority, except authority members, the executive director, and one other employee whom
the authority shall designate and employ, and except professional employees employed on
a contract basis, shall be in the classified state civil service.
Present law makes an exception for employees of the public housing authorities of
New Orleans, Cottonport, Denham Springs, Oil City, and Lafayette.
Proposed law adds the employees of the Monroe Housing Authority to the list of employees
of public housing agencies excepted from state civil service.
Effective August 1, 2020.
(Adds R.S. 40:539(C)(8)(g))
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