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LouisianaHB 3762026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to provisional appointments in the classified service

Sponsored By: Timothy P. Kerner (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Local and Municipal AffairsMunicipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Longer temporary appointments for fire and police

Louisiana municipalities, parishes, and fire protection districts can make provisional appointments of qualified people for up to 90 days, up from 60. Covered jobs include entry-level firefighters, police officers, jailers, secretaries to the chief, and departmental records clerks. Also covered are entry-level jobs whose main duty is operating and maintaining fire or police radio, alarm, or signal systems. Appointments cannot exceed 90 days, and successive provisional appointments in these classes remain prohibited. These temporary appointments do not give workers permanent civil service status.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Timothy P. Kerner

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 138 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/12/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

House vote • 4/15/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 94 • No: 0

House vote • 4/9/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 9 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 157.

    5/15/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/15/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/14/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/14/2026House

  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/13/2026House

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

    5/13/2026House

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/12/2026Senate

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

    5/5/2026Senate

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

    5/4/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/29/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.

    4/20/2026Senate

  12. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/15/2026House

  13. Called from the calendar.

    4/15/2026House

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/15/2026House

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

    4/15/2026Senate

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2026.

    4/14/2026House

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

    4/13/2026House

  18. Reported favorably (9-0).

    4/9/2026House

  19. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.

    3/9/2026House

  20. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

    2/27/2026House

  21. Prefiled.

    2/25/2026House

  22. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.

    2/25/2026House

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