---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified police service in Morgan City"
description: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified police service in Morgan City"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 215"
citation: "Louisiana HB 215 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vincent J. St. Blanc , III"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/225c9c58-1d5f-4a9f-8aea-0f8badd3184b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245821"
source_hash: "c3865c8ade42652d335177c2b041cb3284fa586209f0af5100dbfd0e87f99eff"
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 215 (2024) — CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the classified police service in Morgan City

## Version chain

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

1. **HB215 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347081)
2. **HB215 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381895)
3. **HB215 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369462)
4. **HB215 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378184)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#821) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1128) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 418. `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 34 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`
- **2024-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/2024.
- **2024-04-30** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Reported favorably (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-11** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`
- **2024-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/225c9c58-1d5f-4a9f-8aea-0f8badd3184b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).