---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to employment lists and tests for positions in the municipal fire and police civil service"
description: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to employment lists and tests for positions in the municipal fire and police civil service"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 400"
citation: "Louisiana HB 400 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wayne McMahen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6001e5a2-0e25-4bbe-bdf6-eb6055bd5b68"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236216"
source_hash: "121067262d0b82cb89ff5250ccd9f73bacc37d593865d99d8ad4e98b04075114"
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 400 (2019) — CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to employment lists and tests for positions in the municipal fire and police civil service

## Version chain

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

1. **HB400 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121457)
2. **HB400 Act 224** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144087)
3. **HB400 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132488)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2857, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139503)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3113, Gatti, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140603)
6. **HB400 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142192)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#901) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#463) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#832) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wayne McMahen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 224. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-30** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
- **2019-05-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-08** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6001e5a2-0e25-4bbe-bdf6-eb6055bd5b68`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).