RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 342 (SB 386) 2024 Regular Session Price
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 Morgan City 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 White Castle 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))