---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the secretary of the Baton Rouge municipal fire and police civil service board"
description: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the secretary of the Baton Rouge municipal fire and police civil service board"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 163"
citation: "Louisiana HB 163 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Selders"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-23"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba677572-7fef-402d-9ab1-dac2deaf7d84"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244021"
source_hash: "05d8bc7f3a98e427a760486f3f4f3fd50b973df2175204101e6ed4b5ada8fe62"
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 163 (2023) — CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the secretary of the Baton Rouge municipal fire and police civil service board

## Version chain

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

1. **HB163 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1304909)
2. **HB163 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332474)
3. **HB163 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318520)
4. **HB163 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329428)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#385) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#692) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Larry Selders — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 316. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-02** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-06-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2023.
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
- **2023-03-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba677572-7fef-402d-9ab1-dac2deaf7d84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).