RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 201 (HB 183) 2024 Regular Session LaCombe
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 government 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 and one other employee whom the authority designates, and
professional employees employed on a contract basis.
Existing law provides that the housing authorities in specified cities shall not be considered
instrumentalities of the state for purposes of existing constitution and that employees of those
authorities shall not be included in the state civil service.
New law additionally provides that the New Roads Public Housing Authority shall not be
considered an instrumentality of the state for purposes of existing constitution and that
employees of the authority shall not be included in the state civil service.
Effective August 1, 2024.
(Adds R.S. 40:539(C)(8)(q))