RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 297 (SB 139) 2024 Regular Session Hensgens
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 provides that all 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. Existing law also excepts from this requirement: 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, Lafayette, East Baton Rouge Parish, Monroe, Shreveport, Kenner,
Simmesport, Bunkie, Colfax, Kinder, Berwick, and the Morgan City Housing Authority 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 retains existing law and provides that the Delcambre Housing Authority and the
Gueydan Housing Authority shall not be considered an instrumentality of the state for
purposes of Const. Art. X, §1(A) and that employees of these authorities shall not be
included in state civil service.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Adds R.S. 40:539(C)(8)(q) and (r))