CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified police service in the city of Alexandria
HB 47 sets specific rules for filling vacant police positions in Alexandria, Louisiana. It requires the city to select new officers from the top five candidates with the highest departmental seniority on the official promotional list, after considering reinstatements or reemployment. This directly affects the Alexandria Police Department and its hiring process for classified positions. The bill modifies existing procedures to prioritize seniority within the promotional list for these vacancies.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
Jun 2025
House Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
Jun 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Mar 7, 2025
Signed Jun 8, 2025
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MINOR
This bill converts HB 47 from a draft proposal into an official enrolled act, making the new law legally effective. The substantive policy regarding police appointments in Alexandria remains unchanged; it requires the appointing authority to select a candidate from the top five ranked by departmental seniority on the promotional list.
Scope change
The bill's scope of applicability is unchanged; it continues to apply specifically to the classified police service in the city of Alexandria.
TECHNICAL
The document was finalized from a draft version to an enrolled act, updating the header to 'ENROLLED' and changing the page count from 3 to 2 by removing the digest and explanatory notes.
Floor votes · Senate Jun 2, 2025 · House May 21, 2025
How they voted
39–0
Passed
Total votes 39
Jun 2, 2025
D
Democratic11
100% Yea
R
Republican28
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
4
Committee
5
Jun 2, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
Jun 1, 2025
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 29, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
May 21, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 19, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (12-0).
lower
Apr 14, 2025
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
lower
Mar 7, 2025
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
Jason DeWitt
RRepublican
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