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Regular Session, 2011
SENATE BILL NO. 111
BY SENATOR NEVERS
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
SCHOOLS. Provides relative to an annual report regarding the condition of public
elementary and secondary education. (8/15/11)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 17:22(7), relative to elementary and secondary education; to2
provide with respect to the condition, progress, and needs of public elementary and3
secondary schools; to provide with respect to the annual report the superintendent is4
required to submit to specified entities; to provide for a submission date for such5
report; and to provide for related matters.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 17:22(7) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 8
ยง22. Superintendent; functions and duties 9
The superintendent shall: 10
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(7)(a) Make an annual report to the board, the governor, and the legislature12
on the condition of, the progress made, and the improvements needed in the public13
elementary and secondary schools . The report shall contain the following:14
(a) a (i) A complete financial report on the receipts and expenditures of the15
department and of the various schools; .16
(b) data (ii) Data concerning faculty, enrollment, graduates, courses of17 SB NO. 111
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study, and any other information required to show the condition, progress, and needs1
of these schools; and .2
(c) an (iii) An abstract of the reports of the parish city, parish, and other3
local public school superintendents to the state superintendent, as well as all other4
facts and statistics that are of interest to the public schools, and .5
(d) such (iv) Such other information as is necessary to effectuate the6
purposes of this Paragraph.7
(b) He The superintendent shall cause a sufficient number of copies of this8
report to be printed for distribution to the members of the board, the governor, the9
members of the legislature, state officials, parish city, parish, and other local10
public school boards, libraries, and the superintendents of schools of other states and11
territories.12
(c) Such report shall be submitted to the board, the governor, and the13
legislature not later than March fifteenth of each year.14
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jeanne C. Johnston.
DIGEST
Nevers (SB 111)
Present law requires the state superintendent of education to make an annual report to the
board, the governor, and the legislature on the condition of, the progress made, and the
improvements needed in the public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that such
report shall contain:
1.A complete financial report on the receipts and expenditures of the department and
of the various schools.
2.Data concerning faculty, enrollment, graduates, courses of study, and any other
information required to show the condition, progress and needs of these schools.
3. An abstract of the reports of the parish superintendents to the state superintendent,
as well as all other facts and statistics that are of interest to the public schools.
4. Such other information as is necessary to effectuate the purposes of present law.
Proposed law retains present law.
Present law provides that the state superintendent shall cause a sufficient number of copies
of this report to be printed for distribution to the members of the board, the governor, the
members of the legislature, state officials, parish school boards, libraries, and the SB NO. 111
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superintendents of schools of other states and territories.
Proposed law retains present law but changes the term "parish" as it relates to school boards
and superintendents to the more inclusive term "city, parish, and other local public".
Proposed law provides that the report required of the state superintendent shall be submitted
to the specified recipients not later than March 15
th
of each year.
Effective August 15, 2011.
(Amends R.S. 17:22(7))