---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL SERVICE: Provides relative to entrance firefighters and police officer classes. (8/1/21)"
description: "CIVIL SERVICE: Provides relative to entrance firefighters and police officer classes. (8/1/21)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 193"
citation: "Louisiana SB 193 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Morris"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e0178b1-7ba8-4572-9933-143eb5ae9ba4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240485"
source_hash: "b8cdc5e24750b0d727cc15b212d76bf715e969fd1770cc5b493909e7421940af"
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 193 (2021) — CIVIL SERVICE: Provides relative to entrance firefighters and police officer classes. (8/1/21)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB193 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211739)
2. **SB193 Act 51** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230699)
3. **SB193 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214033)
4. **SB193 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215642)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #730, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215223)
6. **SB193 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227197)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#70) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#566) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jay Morris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date 8/1/2021.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 51. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-27** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/25/2021. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-24** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-24** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-24** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2021-05-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-19** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-19** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2021.
- **2021-05-11** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-06** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-20** 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`
- **2021-04-19** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-14** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** 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/2e0178b1-7ba8-4572-9933-143eb5ae9ba4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).