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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 82
BY SENATOR GUILLORY
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS. Establishes an additional state employee position in the office
of the registrar in St. Landry Parish. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 18:59.2(B), relative to registrars of voters; to provide relative to2
authorized positions in the office of the registrar of voters in St. Landry Parish; and3
to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 18:59.2(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
ยง59.2. Number of employee positions established; increase; decrease7
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B.(1) In addition to the number of authorized positions established in the9
office of a registrar of voters as provided in Subsection A hereof of this Section, two10
state employee positions are established for each permanent branch office in11
existence in each parish on the effective date of this Section or thereafter established,12
except that three state employee positions are established for the permanent branch13
office located in city hall of Orleans Parish.14
(2) In addition to the number of authorized positions established in the15
office of a registrar of voters as provided in Subsection A of this Section and16
Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, one state employee position is established in17 SB NO. 82
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the office of the registrar of voters in St. Landry Parish, subject to annual1
appropriations of the legislature.2
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Section 2. The additional state employee position established by this Act in the4
office of the registrar in St. Landry Parish shall be an administrative position.5
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Alden A. Clement, Jr.
DIGEST
Guillory (SB 82)
Present law provides for the number of authorized positions for state employees in the office
of a registrar of voters based on the population of the parish as follows:
PARISH
POPULATION RANGE NUMBER OF POSITIONS
0 to 30,000 2
30,001 to 65,000 3
65,001 to 100,000 4
100,001 to 200,000 5
200,001 to 300,000 7
300,001 to 400,000 10
400,001 to 475,000 13
475,001 to 1,000,000 17
Present law provides for additional authorized positions in permanent branch offices of a
registrar of voters.
Present law provides for reduction in the number of authorized positions based on a drop in
parish population and provides for the filling of additional authorized positions.
Present law provides that an additional position cannot be filled until the parish governing
authority has appropriated the parish portion of the salary for the position and the legislature
has appropriated to the secretary of state the state portion of the salary for the position.
Proposed law retains present law and further provides for an additional state employe e
position in the office of the registrar in St. Landry Parish, subject to annual appropriations
of the legislature, which is to be an administrative position.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Amends R.S. 18:59.2(B)) SB NO. 82
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Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Senate and
Governmental Affairs to the original bill.
1. Adds that the additional state employee position in the office of the registrar
in St. Landry Parish is to be subject to annual appropriations of the
legislature.