Louisiana2026Enacted
HB441
Repeal of Plan to Transfer New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board Employees
Last scannedAug 25, 2026, 3:26 AM
In one sentence
This law cancels a previous requirement that forced the State Civil Service Commission and the City of New Orleans Civil Service Commission to create a plan for moving employees from the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board into the civil service system.
What it does
- Repeals Section 2 of Act No. 384 from the 2024 Regular Session in full.
- Removes the rule that required a transfer plan for board employees to be developed by specific commissions.
- Sets an effective date based on when the governor signs or approves the bill, or if it becomes law without signature.
Who it affects
- The New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board
- Employees of the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board
- The State Civil Service Commission
- The Civil Service Commission of the City of New Orleans
Limits and unknowns
- The text does not explain why the previous law was changed or what will happen to employee transfers in the future.
- While the official metadata lists an effective date of June 16, 2026, the bill text states it becomes effective upon signature by the governor or expiration of time for bills to become law without signature.
Plain language
Terms to know
- Repeal
- To officially cancel or remove a law that was previously passed.
- Civil Service Commission
- A government group mentioned in the bill responsible for developing plans regarding public employee transfers.
Official record
Sources
Official summary
SEWERAGE/N O WATER BD: Provides relative to employees of the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board
Official activity
Bill history
- Effective date 6/16/26H
- Becomes Act No. 918 without the Governor's signature.H
- Sent to the Governor for executive approval.H
- Signed by the President of the Senate.S
- Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.H
- Received from the Senate without amendments.H
- Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.S
- Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.S
- Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.S
- Reported favorably.S
- Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.S
- Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.S
- Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.H
- Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2026.H
- Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.H
- Reported favorably (13-0).H
- Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.H
- Read by title. Lies over under the rules.H
- First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.H
- Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date.H