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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 12
BY REPRESENTATIVE ABRAMSON
A RESOLUTION
To amend and readopt House Rules 7.16(A) and 10.7 of the Rules of Order of the House of
Representatives, relative to fiscal notes; to create and provide for the Fiscal Note
Review Committee; to require a member's voting machine to be locked under certain
circumstances; and to provide relative to procedure when questions arise regarding
the content of a fiscal note on a legislative instrument.
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana
that House Rules 7.16(A) and 10.7 of the Rules of Order of the House of Representatives are
hereby amended and readopted to read as follows:
Rule 7.16. Fiscal notes; requirement; capital outlay appropriations, amendments
A.(1) Every bill, joint resolution, and simple or concurrent resolution, which
will affect the receipt, expenditure, or allocation of state funds in an amount of one
hundred thousand dollars or greater in any fiscal year or of the funds of any political
subdivision of the state in an amount of one hundred thousand dollars or greater in
any fiscal year or which will authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds or
other general obligations of the state, shall have a fiscal note attached to it prior to
its adoption or its consideration on final passage. Whenever a measure which affects
the receipt, expenditure, or allocation of state funds in an amount of one hundred
thousand dollars or greater in any fiscal year or of the funds of any political
subdivision of the state in an amount of one hundred thousand dollars or greater in
any fiscal year or which will authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds or
other general obligations of the state has been reported by any committee of the
House without a fiscal note filed with the Clerk, or which needs a revised fiscal note
prepared and filed with the Clerk due to the adoption of committee amendments, the
Clerk shall request a fiscal note on the measure be so prepared and filed. The ENROLLEDHR NO. 12
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determination of the need to obtain a fiscal note shall be made by the Clerk, with due
consideration of the recommendation of House Legislative Services staff. If upon
the measure being called for final passage or final consideration a current fiscal note
has not been filed with the Clerk, the measure shall be returned to the calendar.
(2)(a) There is hereby created the Fiscal Note Review Committee which
shall be composed of three members of the House of Representatives appointed by
the Speaker of the House.
(b) Whenever the author of a measure questions the information contained
in a fiscal note on the measure, he may request the Fiscal Note Review Committee
to review the content of the fiscal note. When the Fiscal Note Review Committee
receives a request from an author, it shall review the fiscal note and shall notify the
author whether the committee approves the information contained within the fiscal
note or recommends that a revised fiscal note be obtained.
(c) When the Fiscal Note Review Committee receives a request to review a
fiscal note pursuant to this Paragraph, the Fiscal Note Review Committee shall
review and make a determination regarding the fiscal note no later than three days
after receipt of the request. If the Fiscal Note Review Committee fails to make a
determination regarding the fiscal note within the time period provided in this
Subparagraph, the fiscal note is deemed approved.
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Rule 10.7. Must be present in Chamber to vote
A. The voting machine of a member who fails to answer roll call
during Morning Hour No. 1 shall be locked until the member enters the
House Chamber and notifies the Clerk of his arrival.
B. No member shall be permitted to vote in any roll call vote in any
case in which he is not within the House Chamber before the result of the
vote has been announced by the presiding officer.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES