---
type: "Bill"
title: "MUNICIPAL: Provides relative to the municipal civil service system for the city of Zachary"
description: "MUNICIPAL: Provides relative to the municipal civil service system for the city of Zachary"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 246"
citation: "Louisiana HB 246 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daryl Adams"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-27"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5aae598c-e0e7-4706-9f30-94d980267d83"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245859"
source_hash: "fccc9e98e1d23747d202f76aa6f3b8aa385515451e4ef30dfcb7a01e7b172fe6"
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 246 (2024) — MUNICIPAL: Provides relative to the municipal civil service system for the city of Zachary

## Version chain

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

1. **HB246 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347780)
2. **HB246 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381948)
3. **HB246 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362753)
4. **HB246 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374207)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#658) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#435) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Daryl Adams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Becomes Act No. 468 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2024-05-17** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/11/2024.
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-08** Reported favorably (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5aae598c-e0e7-4706-9f30-94d980267d83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).