HLS 12RS-888 ORIGINAL Page 1 of 3 CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored are additions. Regular Session, 2012 HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 20 BY REPRESENTATIVE TIM BURNS HOUSE/RULES: Provides relative to recommittal of certain legislative instruments A RESOLUTION1 To amend and readopt House Rule 6.8(F) of the Rules of Order of the House of2 Representatives and to repeal House Rule 6.8(A) of the Rules of Order of the House3 of Representatives to provide relative to the recommittal of certain legislative4 instruments.5 BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana6 that House Rule 6.8(F) of the Rules of Order of the House of Representatives is hereby7 amended and readopted to read as follows:8 Rule 6.8. Recommittal: Constitutional amendments; study Study resolutions;9 Capital Outlay Bill; minimum foundation resolution; legislative instruments10 creating special funds; legislative instruments with a fiscal impact; public11 records exceptions; interstate compacts; felonies12 * * *13 F. Any legislative instrument originating in the Senate with an estimated14 fiscal cost of five one hundred thousand dollars or more of state general15 funds annually in any one of the three ensuing fiscal years as reflected in the fiscal16 note prepared in accordance with Joint Rule No. 4, or with a fiscal cost which,17 although not specified in the fiscal note, is indicated in the fiscal note as likely to18 equal or exceed five one hundred thousand dollars of state general funds annually in19 any of the three ensuing fiscal years, shall be referred to a standing committee under20 the provisions of Rule 6.5 and, if reported, shall be reported to the Clerk of the21 HLS 12RS-888 ORIGINAL HR NO. 20 Page 2 of 3 CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored are additions. House in accordance with the requirements of Rule 6.11(A). However, after such1 report, any such Senate instrument reported favorably or with amendments,2 immediately following the reading of such report and action on any amendments3 reported, shall be recommitted by the Speaker to the Committee on Appropriations.4 * * *5 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature6 of Louisiana that House Rule 6.8(A) of the Rules of Order of the House of Representatives7 is hereby repealed.8 DIGEST The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services.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)] Tim Burns HR No. 20 Abstract: Requires any legislative instrument with an estimated fiscal cost of $100,000 or more annually of state general funds to be recommitted to the Appropriations Committee if reported by a different standing committee and removes requirement that proposed constitutional amendments be recommitted to Civil Law & Procedure. Present House Rule (House Rule 6.8) requires the recommittal of certain legislative instruments including constitutional amendments (Civil Law & Procedure); resolutions proposing certain studies (House and Governmental Affairs); the Capital Outlay Bill (Appropriations); the MFP concurrent resolution (Appropriations); specials funds (Appropriations); Senate instruments with a fiscal cost of $500,000 or more (Appropriations); Senate instruments with a net decrease in fees or a net increase in fees or taxes of $500,000 or more (Ways & Means); public records exceptions (House and Governmental Affairs); provisions to join an interstate compact (House and Governmental Affairs); and provisions to establish a new felony or to change the nature, elements, definition, or applicable penalties of an existing felony (Administration of Criminal Justice). Proposed House Rule removes the present House Rule requirement that a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution be recommitted to Committee on Civil Law & Procedure and which required such committee to report on whether the measures could be accomplished statutorily and whether the measures conflict with one another, and to indicate the number introduced and the number reported by other committees. Present House Rule requires any Senate instrument with an estimated fiscal cost of $500,000 or more annually in any one of the three ensuing fiscal years as reflected in the fiscal note or with a fiscal cost which, although not specified, is indicated in the fiscal note as likely to be $500,000 or more annually in any of the three ensuing fiscal years to be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations if reported by another standing committee. Proposed House Rule instead requires any legislative instrument with an estimated fiscal cost of $100,000 or more annually of state general funds in any one of the three ensuing fiscal years as reflected in the fiscal note or with a fiscal cost which, although not specified, is indicated in the fiscal note as likely to be $100,000 or more annually of state general funds HLS 12RS-888 ORIGINAL HR NO. 20 Page 3 of 3 CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored are additions. in any of the three ensuing fiscal years to be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations if reported by another standing committee. (Amends House Rule 6.8(F); Repeals House Rule 6.8(A))