CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified police service in the city of Kenner
HB 187 amends a law governing the classified police service in Kenner by reducing the number of officers required for a specific role from five to three. This change directly affects the city's police department and its staffing requirements. The bill is a minor adjustment to existing personnel rules and does not introduce new policies or procedures.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
Apr 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
May 2024
Introduced Feb 26, 2024
Signed May 23, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 13, 2024 · House Apr 11, 2024
How they voted
33–0
Passed · 5 other
Total votes 38
May 13, 2024
D
Democratic12
83% Yea
R
Republican26
88% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
19
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 13, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 6, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 1, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 11, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 8, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (14-0).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
lower
Feb 26, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Debbie Villio
RRepublican
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