---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified police service in the city of Baton Rouge"
description: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified police service in the city of Baton Rouge"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 438"
citation: "Louisiana HB 438 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Ted James"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19967552-7b59-45cc-922a-d453c2f75f5b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236258"
source_hash: "8192779f80fcaf36bd20c2413541ac471525d88f62648a19c175c0a888e73dbb"
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 438 (2019) — CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified police service in the city of Baton Rouge

## Version chain

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

1. **HB438 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121672)
2. **HB438 Act 230** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144093)
3. **HB438 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132520)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1536, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129116)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2410, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132509)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2754, White, B, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138814)
7. **HB438 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142190)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#755) — **28–8** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#903) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2754 BY WHITE, HB 438 BY JAMES (#754) — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#446) — **83–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edward Ted James — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 03/31/2020.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 230. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-01** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 8 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 83, nays 12. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-21** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
- **2019-05-09** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-08** Reported with amendments (15-0).
- **2019-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19967552-7b59-45cc-922a-d453c2f75f5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).