---
type: "Bill"
title: "HOUSING/AUTHORITIES: Provides relative to the civil service status of employees of housing authorities"
description: "HOUSING/AUTHORITIES: Provides relative to the civil service status of employees of housing authorities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 563"
citation: "Louisiana HB 563 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Carpenter"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4de041bb-d53c-463d-a4a2-3daee4b5aad0"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246321"
source_hash: "68685f8bf819e21712776c9fa8f0a9b3c89bbcf90b3e54f99f1eb6c19c30d80b"
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 563 (2024) — HOUSING/AUTHORITIES: Provides relative to the civil service status of employees of housing authorities

## Version chain

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

1. **HB563 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351688)
2. **HB563 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381911)
3. **HB563 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364857)
4. **HB563 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366936)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2573, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363243)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2826, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364820)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3189, Carpenter, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366397)
8. **HB563 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378192)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1113) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#585) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Carpenter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 06/03/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 433. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2024.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-11** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4de041bb-d53c-463d-a4a2-3daee4b5aad0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).