---
type: "Bill"
title: "MUNICIPALITIES: Provides relative to promotional and competitive tests provided by municipal fire and police civil service boards. (2/3 - CA10s18) (gov sig)"
description: "MUNICIPALITIES: Provides relative to promotional and competitive tests provided by municipal fire and police civil service boards. (2/3 - CA10s18) (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 165"
citation: "Louisiana SB 165 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yvonne Colomb"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc2082d9-c521-4b76-9598-38b14f5bb143"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236156"
source_hash: "6823b47a7585221f6bb77d6765b9b4c5baff6c40ce8ecb4f9e218601a56a4721"
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 165 (2019) — MUNICIPALITIES: Provides relative to promotional and competitive tests provided by municipal fire and police civil service boards. (2/3 - CA10s18) (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB165 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120987)
2. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2059, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135151)
3. **SB165 Act 275** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144036)
4. **SB165 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130384)
5. **SB165 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132764)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1428, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129951)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1664, Peacock, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132141)
8. **SB165 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141648)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#867) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#299) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#787) — **85–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Yvonne Colomb — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 275. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2019-06-01** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2019-05-31** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-05-31** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-31** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/31/19.
- **2019-05-29** Notice given.
- **2019-05-29** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/19.
- **2019-05-21** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-20** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-16** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-13** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-09** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-06** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc2082d9-c521-4b76-9598-38b14f5bb143`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).