---
type: "Bill"
title: "HOUSING: Provides relative to the civil service status of employees of the Berwick Housing Authority. (gov sig)"
description: "HOUSING: Provides relative to the civil service status of employees of the Berwick Housing Authority. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 37"
citation: "Louisiana SB 37 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. L. Bret Allain, II"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-21"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39ace035-95fb-47f6-9f74-9a579a557976"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243999"
source_hash: "1396582303566c08bf76d6a633f63112af4621bec6c71b992632add2f3850514"
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 37 (2023) — HOUSING: Provides relative to the civil service status of employees of the Berwick Housing Authority. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB37 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1304443)
2. **SB37 Act 186** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332168)
3. **SB37 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313456)
4. **SB37 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328791)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#854) — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#114) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- R. L. Bret Allain, II — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-08** Effective date 6/8/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 186. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-05** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
- **2023-05-23** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-18** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-01** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-25** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-21** 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/39ace035-95fb-47f6-9f74-9a579a557976`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).