---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified police service in the city of Leesville"
description: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified police service in the city of Leesville"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 255"
citation: "Louisiana HB 255 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-27"
last_action: "2024-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ee69111-b20a-4c6a-b650-d473a63a45d4"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245879"
source_hash: "7ed7d9d07c138fa5cfc4d9ba7d584833f12396a62b3259145a0a7f3a3e459a68"
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 255 (2024) — CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified police service in the city of Leesville

## Version chain

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

1. **HB255 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348034)
2. **HB255 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379620)
3. **HB255 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367054)
4. **HB255 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375565)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#792) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#704) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles Owen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 262. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-11** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`
- **2024-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ee69111-b20a-4c6a-b650-d473a63a45d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).