---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the qualifications of the members of the municipal fire and police civil service board in the city of Baton Rouge"
description: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the qualifications of the members of the municipal fire and police civil service board in the city of Baton Rouge"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 376"
citation: "Louisiana HB 376 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Denise Marcelle"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14c4672e-b549-4a65-9ef5-ba79285766de"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238002"
source_hash: "f68d2ec57175c9ed110bfe46198e9d55b0a395cf6168c9b55c9d4d61d61f540b"
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 376 (2020) — CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the qualifications of the members of the municipal fire and police civil service board in the city of Baton Rouge

## Version chain

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

1. **HB376 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1161941)
2. **HB376 Act 142** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181451)
3. **HB376 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170401)
4. **HB376 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175728)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1645, Marcelle, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172399)
6. **HB376 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177404)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#236) — **45–47** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#484) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#420) — **90–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C. Denise Marcelle — primary (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 142. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Called from the calendar.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, reconsidered, returned to the calendar, under the rules.
- **2020-05-21** Rules suspended.
- **2020-05-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 45, nays 47. The bill, not having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, failed to pass.
- **2020-05-20** Called from the calendar.
- **2020-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/20.
- **2020-05-18** Notice given.
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-31** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2020-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14c4672e-b549-4a65-9ef5-ba79285766de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).