---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified fire service in the city of Houma"
description: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified fire service in the city of Houma"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 72"
citation: "Louisiana HB 72 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-14"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ed2c5eb-3e5c-442b-af89-996ad91ceaa9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233154"
source_hash: "473c4443a116a64bfef161428d3e344a1a3deb75b8d5802ddb952747cba7c084"
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 72 (2018) — CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified fire service in the city of Houma

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB72 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1063793)
2. **HB72 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096892)
3. **HB72 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080608)
4. **HB72 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1090668)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#565) — **29–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#302) — **82–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 51. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-04-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-04-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-04-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-23** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/06/18.
- **2018-04-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-29** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-16** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/16/2018.
- **2018-02-14** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ed2c5eb-3e5c-442b-af89-996ad91ceaa9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).