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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 144
BY SENATORS THOMPSON AND WAL SWORTH
HOMELAND SECURITY. Provides with respect to the sunset provisions of the Governor's
Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. (6/30/10)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 49:191(5)(b) and to repeal R.S. 49:191(3)(k), relative to the Governor's Office2
of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, including provisions to provide3
for the re-creation of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency4
Preparedness and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law; to5
provide for the effective termination date for all statutory authority for the existence6
of such statutory entities; and to provide for related matters.7
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:8
Section 1. Pursuant to R.S. 49:193, the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and9
Emergency Preparedness and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law10
shall be re-created effective June 30, 2010, and all statutory authority therefor is continued11
in accordance with the provisions of Part XII of Chapter 1 of Title 49 of the Louisiana12
Revised Statutes of 1950.13
Section 2. All statutory authority for the existence of the Governor's Office of14
Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness and the statutory entities made a part of15
the department as re-created by Section 1 of this Act shall cease as of July 1, 2015, pursuant16
to R.S. 49:191. However, the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency17 SB NO. 144
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Preparedness may be re-created prior to such date in accordance with the provisions of Part1
XII of Chapter 1 of Title 49 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.2
Section 3. The provisions of R.S. 49:193 are hereby superseded to the extent that3
those provisions are in conflict with the provisions of this Act.4
Section 4. R.S. 49:191(5)(b) is hereby enacted to read as follows:5
ยง191. Termination of legislative authority for existence of statutory entities; phase-6
out period for statutory entities; table of dates7
Notwithstanding any termination dates set by any previous Act of the8
legislature, the statutory entities set forth in this Section shall begin to terminate their9
operations on July first of each of the following years, and all legislative authority10
for the existence of any statutory entity, as defined in R.S. 49:190, shall cease as of11
July first of the following year, which shall be the termination date:12
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(5) July 1, 2014:14
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(b) The Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency16
Preparedness and all statutory entities made a part of the department17
by law.18
Section 5. R.S. 49:191(3)(k) is hereby repealed in its entirety.19
Section 6. This Act shall become effective on June 30, 2010; if vetoed by the20
governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become effective on21
June 30, 2010, or on the day following such approval by the legislature, whichever is later.22
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Heyward Jeffers.
DIGEST
Thompson (SB 144)
Present law provides for the termination of legislative authority for existence of the
Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness on July 1, 2010. SB NO. 144
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Proposed law repeals current law and provides for the termination of legislative authority
for existence of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
on July 1, 2014.
Effective June 30, 2010.
(Adds R.S. 49:191(5)(b); repeals R.S. 49:191(3)(k))