RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 433 (HB 563) 2024 Regular Session Carpenter
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 (R.S. 40:539(C)(8)) 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, Monroe, Shreveport, Kenner, Simmsport, Bunkie, Colfax,
Kinder, Berwick, Morgan City, and East Baton Rouge Parish 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 authorizes a housing authority, upon determining that it should not be considered
to be an instrumentality of the state for purposes of Art. X, §1(A) and that the employees of
such authority shall not be included in the state civil service, to adopt a resolution to that
effect and to transmit a certified copy of the resolution by certified mail to the director of the
Dept. of State Civil Service. Requires that the resolution be given effect upon the director's
receipt.
Effective upon signature of governor (June 3, 2024).
(Amends R.S. 40:539(C)(8)(a))


Statutes affected:
HB563 Original: 40:539(C)(8)
HB563 Engrossed: 40:539(C)(8)
HB563 Reengrossed: 40:539(C)(8)
HB563 Enrolled: 40:539(C)(8)
HB563 Act : 40:539(C)(8)