republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/sb-8.md

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Bill	CIVIL SERVICE: Constitutional amendment to provide for persons in the unclassified service and for appointment of persons on the State Civil Service Commission. (2/3 - CA13s1(A))	CIVIL SERVICE: Constitutional amendment to provide for persons in the unclassified service and for appointment of persons on the State Civil Service Commission. (2/3 - CA13s1(A))	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	SB 8	Louisiana SB 8 (2025)	bill		enacted	Jay Morris	13	31	4	2025-03-11	2025-06-16	openstates	ocd-bill/6f3ba9dd-d4e5-4848-b15b-c6e5fa7d9a3c	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247942	d1f320a6933755eb2f6a716324446048f2220e0fd58eb77438fc2b67791faab5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 8 (2025) — CIVIL SERVICE: Constitutional amendment to provide for persons in the unclassified service and for appointment of persons on the State Civil Service Commission. (2/3 - CA13s1(A))

Version chain

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

1. SB8 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #3435, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #3654, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #3836, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #3851, CL&P, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Amendment, #4141, Beaullieu, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #4298, Dewitt, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #4332, Dewitt, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
9. SB8 Act (committee substitute) — source
10. SB8 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #1112, S&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Committee Amendment, #899, S&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
13. SB8 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#1050) — 70–28 (pass) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 4332 BY DEWITT, MOTION TO ADOPT (#1047) — 8–88 (fail) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#262) — 28–8 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR (#935) — 28–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jay Morris — primary (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-16 Effective date: See Act.
• 2025-06-16 Becomes Act No. 223 became-law
• 2025-06-12 Sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/16/2025.
• 2025-06-12 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2025-06-12 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2025-06-11 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 28 yeas and 9 nays.
• 2025-06-11 Called from the Calendar.
• 2025-06-11 Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
• 2025-06-10 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-09 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 70, nays 28. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-06-09 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-06-09 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-06-09 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-06-08 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/09/2025.
• 2025-06-08 Notice given.
• 2025-06-08 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-06-04 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.
• 2025-06-04 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-06-03 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2025-06-02 Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-29 Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
• 2025-05-28 Reported with amendments (9-4). To be recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-19 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2025-05-15 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2025-05-14 Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 8 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-05-14 Called from the Calendar.
• 2025-05-06 Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
• 2025-05-05 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2025-04-30 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2025-03-11 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f3ba9dd-d4e5-4848-b15b-c6e5fa7d9a3c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).