Sponsor agrees to limit civil-service constitutional change to state employees after New Orleans officials raise concern

The House Civil Law and Procedure Committee advanced Senate Bill 8 after the bill’s sponsor agreed to clarify that the proposed constitutional change would apply only to state civil service positions, not municipal or city civil-service systems.

What the bill would do: SB 8 proposes an amendment to Article X, Section 2 of the Louisiana Constitution to allow the legislature to add certain officers, positions, and employees to the unclassified civil service by law. The author's stated intent at the hearing was to enable legislative action regarding state civil-service positions only; he said he would accept an amendment to make that…