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+type: "Bill"
+title: "LOCAL EMPLOYEES: Removes employees of the Regional Transit Authority from the state system and state civil service. (gov sig) (Item #62) (EN DECREASE APV)"
+description: "LOCAL EMPLOYEES: Removes employees of the Regional Transit Authority from the state system and state civil service. (gov sig) (Item #62) (EN DECREASE APV)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020s2"
+identifier: "SB 26"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 26 (2020s2)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Karen Carter Peterson"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-09-28"
+last_action: "2020-10-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79f2d61c-fff8-440e-8af8-e514c33c235f"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239482"
+source_hash: "778b53ee07e1412ce8b7dba954d1da8586c83ff541dbc196fb7cf0e4c9819e80"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana SB 26 (2020s2) — LOCAL EMPLOYEES: Removes employees of the Regional Transit Authority from the state system and state civil service. (gov sig) (Item #62) (EN DECREASE APV)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB26 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189327)
+2. **SB26 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1194548)
+3. **SB26 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190778)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #243, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190692)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #245, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190700)
+6. **SB26 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1192678)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#38) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#134) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Karen Carter Peterson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-10-22** Effective date 10/22/2020.
+- **2020-10-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 8. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-10-21** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 10/15/2020. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-10-15** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-10-15** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-10-14** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2020-10-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-10-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/14/20.
+- **2020-10-13** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-10-12** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2020-10-12** Reported favorably (7-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-10-06** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-10-06** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-10-05** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-09-28** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79f2d61c-fff8-440e-8af8-e514c33c235f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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