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HB 666 Original 2024 Regular Session Jordan
Abstract: Removes the Baton Rouge police department from the municipal fire and police civil
service system.
Present constitution creates a system of classified fire and police civil service for all municipalities
having a population exceeding 13,000 and operating a regularly paid fire and municipal police
department and to all parishes and fire protection districts operating a regularly paid fire department.
Present constitution retains as statutes provisions of the 1921 Constitution of La. applicable to the
municipal fire and police civil service. Authorizes the legislature, by law enacted by two-thirds of
the elected members of each house, to amend those provisions but prohibits the legislature from
abolishing the system or making the system inapplicable to any municipality having a population
exceeding 13,000 or to any parish or fire protection district operating a regularly paid fire
department.
Proposed law, pursuant to proposed constitutional amendment in House Bill No. , removes the
Baton Rouge police department from the municipal fire and police civil service system.
Effective if and when the proposed amendment of Article X of the Constitution of La. contained in
the Act which originated as House Bill No. of this 2024 R.S. of the Legislature is adopted at a
statewide election and becomes effective.
(Amends Const. 1921, Art. XIV, Sec. 15.1(1) and R.S. 33:2471(A) and 2476.8; Adds R.S.
33:2476(C)(5); Repeals R.S. 33:2476(B)(1)(e) and 2494(C)(4))