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LouisianaHB 2282026 Regular SessionHouse

SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of State Civil Service and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law

Sponsored By: Joe Stagni

Signed by Governor

Senate and Governmental AffairsHouse and Governmental Affairs

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Bill Overview

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1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Louisiana renews civil service with end date

Beginning June 30, 2026, the law re-creates Louisiana’s Department of State Civil Service and the entities legally within it. The amended schedule ends their legal authority on July 1, 2032, when they must begin ending operations. They can be re-created before that deadline through the existing legal process. The law removes the prior sunset listing and overrides conflicting rules in the existing re-creation law. It does not specify changes to household taxes, benefits, or individual employment terms.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Joe Stagni

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 137 • No: 2

Senate vote • 5/18/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 33 • No: 2

House vote • 4/1/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 91 • No: 0

House vote • 3/18/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 13 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 294.

    5/22/2026House

  2. Effective date: 06/30/2026.

    5/22/2026House

  3. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/19/2026House

  4. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/19/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/19/2026Senate

  6. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/19/2026House

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/18/2026Senate

  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/11/2026Senate

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/7/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/6/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs.

    4/8/2026Senate

  12. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    4/7/2026Senate

  13. Called from the calendar.

    4/1/2026House

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/1/2026House

  15. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    3/25/2026House

  16. Notice given.

    3/25/2026House

  17. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/01/2026.

    3/25/2026House

  18. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    3/23/2026House

  19. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/25/2026.

    3/23/2026House

  20. Reported favorably (13-0).

    3/18/2026House

  21. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

    3/9/2026House

  22. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/20/2026.

    2/20/2026House

  23. Prefiled.

    2/19/2026House

  24. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

    2/19/2026House

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