---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to certain officers, employees, and positions in the classified fire and police civil service (EN DECREASE SG EX See Note)"
description: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to certain officers, employees, and positions in the classified fire and police civil service (EN DECREASE SG EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 739"
citation: "Louisiana HB 739 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Fontenot"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-18"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11fbef59-a7d0-4ba1-afc8-a3c79e41c3c1"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246740"
source_hash: "f8d9385e0e306d588e6f49ae923df8804b27fd7188978c160abde1f74b2056c2"
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 739 (2024) — CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to certain officers, employees, and positions in the classified fire and police civil service (EN DECREASE SG EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB739 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354953)
2. **HB739 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379565)
3. **HB739 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367008)
4. **HB739 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370086)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3386, Fontenot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367427)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2210, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367352)
7. **HB739 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375672)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#812) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#741) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Fontenot — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 230. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-30** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported favorably (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-19** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-18** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11fbef59-a7d0-4ba1-afc8-a3c79e41c3c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).