---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL SERVICE: Provides relative to the classified police service in the city of Lafayette. (2/3 - CA10s18) (7/1/25)"
description: "CIVIL SERVICE: Provides relative to the classified police service in the city of Lafayette. (2/3 - CA10s18) (7/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 142"
citation: "Louisiana SB 142 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brach Myers"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f4b8140-2396-42e9-829e-32f361cbf83f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248495"
source_hash: "d161c354df273177d7db5a15b9057e1bb6f2f97758cc2608f1a8ee54a736ae01"
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 142 (2025) — CIVIL SERVICE: Provides relative to the classified police service in the city of Lafayette. (2/3 - CA10s18) (7/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB142 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403850)
2. **SB142 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425530)
3. **SB142 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410404)
4. **SB142 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412558)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1312, Myers, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411810)
6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1277, Myers, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411491)
7. **SB142 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422928)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#178) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#959) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brach Myers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date 7/1/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 332. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Notice given.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-29** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-08** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-07** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** 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/7f4b8140-2396-42e9-829e-32f361cbf83f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).