HLS 10RS-342 ORIGINAL
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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 178
BY REPRESENTATIVE GALLOT
PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides with respect to certain information required to be submitted
to the legislature
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 24:772(A), relative to information required to be submitted to2
the legislature; to provide for electronic delivery of a list of agency reports and3
publications; to require the list to be submitted to the David R. Poynter Legislative4
Research Library; to provide a deadline for the submission of the list; to provide for5
the content of the list; to provide for delivery of the information in the list to the6
members of the legislature; and to provide for related matters.7
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:8
Section 1. R.S. 24:772(A) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 9
ยง772. Distribution of reports10
A.(1) To comply with any provision of law and any resolution requiring or11
requesting the submission of reports to the legislature, it shall be sufficient to provide12
one printed copy of the report to the presiding officer of each house of the13
legislature. In addition, the agency shall send an e-mail notification which contains14
an electronic copy of the report to the David R. Poynter Legislative Research Library15
in such an electronic format as may be determined by the Legislative Budgetary16
Control Council. The David R. Poynter Legislative Research Library shall distribute17
a list of such reports to the members of the legislature via e-mail and, upon the18
request of a member, via paper copy. Additionally, each agency shall distribute a list19
of its reports and publications to each member of the legislature by mail each year.20 HLS 10RS-342 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 178
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(2) Each agency shall distribute a list of its reports and publications to the1
David R. Poynter Legislative Research Library by February first of each year. The2
list shall include all reports and publications issued by the agency during the3
previous calendar year and may be sent via e-mail. The David R. Poynter4
Legislative Research Library shall ensure that the information contained in such lists5
is distributed to each individual member of the legislature.6
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Gallot HB No. 178
Abstract: Requires the list of agency reports and publications that must be sent to each
member of the legislature each year to be sent to the David R. Poynter Legislative
Research Library instead; requires the list to be sent by Feb. 1 each year; requires the
list to include all agency reports and publications for the previous calendar year;
provides that the list may be sent via e-mail; and requires the David R. Poynter
Legislative Research Library to ensure that the information contained in such lists
is distributed to each individual member of the legislature.
Present law provides that to comply with any provision of law and any resolution requiring
or requesting the submission of reports to the legislature, it shall be sufficient to provide one
printed copy of the report to the presiding officer of each house of the legislature. Provides
that the agency shall send an e-mail notification which contains an electronic copy of the
report to the David R. Poynter Legislative Research Library in such an electronic format as
may be determined by the Legislative Budgetary Control Council. Provides that the
legislative library shall distribute a list of such reports to the members of the legislature via
e-mail and, upon the request of a member, via paper copy. Provides that each agency shall
distribute a list of its reports and publications to each member of the legislature by mail each
year.
Proposed law repeals the requirement that the list of reports and publications be sent by mail
to each member of the legislature. Provides that the list be sent to the David R. Poynter
Legislative Research Library; requires the list to be sent by Feb. 1 each year; requires the list
to include all agency reports and publications for the previous calendar year; provides that
the list may be sent via e-mail; and requires the David R. Poynter Legislative Research
Library to ensure that the information contained in such lists is distributed to each individual
member of the legislature. Otherwise retains present law.
(Amends R.S. 24:772(A))