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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the qualifications of the members of the municipal fire and police civil service board (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)"
+description: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the qualifications of the members of the municipal fire and police civil service board (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 261"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 261 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Joe Stagni"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-29"
+last_action: "2021-06-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9bf43a3-e0a9-4739-9611-04a40450bbf0"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240116"
+source_hash: "d4898034ad76f0fe93832c805247aa6b1ecfad544764c9497d110ff98c27ba21"
+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 HB 261 (2021) — CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the qualifications of the members of the municipal fire and police civil service board (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB261 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208172)
+2. **HB261 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235476)
+3. **HB261 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222011)
+4. **HB261 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224808)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1334, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216331)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2449, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221990)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #2724, Stagni, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223564)
+8. **HB261 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232832)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#811) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#446) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Joe Stagni — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 280. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-06-06** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-06-03** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-10** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2021.
+- **2021-05-10** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-06** Reported with amendments (9-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
+- **2021-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9bf43a3-e0a9-4739-9611-04a40450bbf0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+