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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 1
BY REPRESENTATIVE GEYMANN
BUDGETARY CONTROLS: Reduces the expenditure limit for FY 2012-2013
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON1
To direct the commissioner of administration to change the expenditure limit for Fiscal Year2
2012-2013.3
WHEREAS, the expenditure limit provided for in Article VII, Section 10(C)(1) of4
the Constitution of Louisiana for Fiscal Year 2012-2013 is established as Fifteen Billion One5
Hundred Seventeen Million One Hundred Forty Thousand Eight Hundred Seventy and6
No/100 ($15,117,140,870.00) Dollars; and7
WHEREAS, the state budget indicated that appropriated expenditures for Fiscal Year8
2011-2012 were Eleven Billion Two Hundred Forty-Two Million Six Hundred Eighty-Three9
Thousand Eight Hundred Nine and No/100 ($11,242,683,809.00) Dollars and anticipated10
adjustments were Four Million Six Hundred Fifty-One Thousand Six Hundred Twenty-Four11
and No/100 ($4,651,624.00) Dollars; and12
WHEREAS, if the growth factor used to calculate the expenditure limit had been13
limited to no more than six percent in any year since the expenditure limit was established,14
the expenditure limit for Fiscal Year 2012-2013 would be Twelve Billion Four Hundred15
Forty-Seven Million Two Hundred Sixty-One Thousand One Hundred Seventy-Two and16
No/100 ($12,447,261,172.00) Dollars; and17
WHEREAS, Article VII, Section 10(C)(2) of the Constitution of Louisiana provides18
that the expenditure limit may be changed in any fiscal year by a favorable vote of two-thirds19
of the elected members of each house and that any such change in the expenditure limit shall20 HLS 12RS-145 ORIGINAL
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be approved by the passage of a specific legislative instrument which clearly states the intent1
to change the limit; and2
WHEREAS, R.S. 39:52.1 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 provides that3
a change to the expenditure limit shall be made pursuant to a concurrent resolution adopted4
by a favorable vote of two-thirds of the elected members of each house directing the5
commissioner of administration to change the expenditure limit to a designated amount for6
a specified fiscal year.7
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana, two-thirds of8
the elected members of each house concurring, does hereby direct the commissioner of9
administration to change the expenditure limit for Fiscal Year 2012-2013 from Fifteen10
Billion One Hundred Seventeen Million One Hundred Forty Thousand Eight Hundred11
Seventy and No/100 ($15,117,140,870.00) Dollars to Twelve Billion Four Hundred Forty-12
Seven Million Two Hundred Sixty-One Thousand One Hundred Seventy-Two and No/10013
($12,447,261,172.00) Dollars.14
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the provisions of this Resolution shall be15
construed to affect the expenditure limit for Fiscal Year 2013-2014 and thereafter in16
accordance with Article VII, Section 10(C) of the Constitution of Louisiana.17
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)]
Geymann HCR No. 1
Directs the commissioner of administration to change the expenditure limit for FY 2012-
2013 from $15,117,140,870 to $12,447,261,172.
Provisions of this Resolution shall be construed to affect the expenditure limit for FY 2013-
2014 and thereafter.