CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified police service in Morgan City
This bill updates the rules for hiring police officers in Morgan City, Louisiana, by changing how candidates are selected for open positions. Instead of automatically choosing the top three candidates on the promotional list, the appointing official must now select someone from the top three based on their years of seniority within the department. This change directly affects the city's police department and the individuals on the certified list of eligible candidates. The legislation ensures that experience within the department is a primary factor when filling vacancies that cannot be filled by reinstatement or reemployment.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Feb 26, 2024
Signed Jun 3, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 22, 2024 · House May 1, 2024
How they voted
34–0
Passed · 4 other
Total votes 38
May 22, 2024
D
Democratic12
91% Yea
R
Republican26
88% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
21
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 22, 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 16, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 15, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
May 1, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 29, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (16-0).
lower
Apr 3, 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
Vinney St. Blanc
RRepublican
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