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type: "Bill"
title: "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))"
description: "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))"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "Louisiana SB 8 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Morris"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 31
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-03-11"
last_action: "2025-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f3ba9dd-d4e5-4848-b15b-c6e5fa7d9a3c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247942"
source_hash: "d1f320a6933755eb2f6a716324446048f2220e0fd58eb77438fc2b67791faab5"
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 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](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1396303)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3435, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417798)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3654, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418940)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3836, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420094)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3851, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420222)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #4141, Beaullieu, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422362)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #4298, Dewitt, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423501)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #4332, Dewitt, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423761)
9. **SB8 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425420)
10. **SB8 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410340)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1112, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410269)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #899, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408528)
13. **SB8 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424748)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1050) — **7028** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 4332 BY DEWITT, MOTION TO ADOPT (#1047) — **888** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#262) — **288** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#935) — **289** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f3ba9dd-d4e5-4848-b15b-c6e5fa7d9a3c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).