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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 552
BY SENATOR PETERSON
STATE DEPARTMENTS. Requires certain state departments to develop and submit annual
reports providing statistics on women by race and ethnic groups. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 46:2525.1, relative to data collected by certain state departments; to provide2
that certain state departments develop reports providing statistics on women by race3
and ethnic groups; to provide for annual reports; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 46:2525.1 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง2525.1. Reporting statistics on women by race and ethnic group7
The secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services,8
Department of Health and Hospitals, Department of Economic Development,9
director of the Department of State Civil Service, the Superintendent of the10
Department of Education, the commissioner of the division of administration,11
the executive director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission and the head of12
the Louisiana State University Health Science Center Health Care Services13
Division shall develop and submit annual reports providing statistics on women14
by race and ethnic groups, which shall include but not be limited to15
performance indicators, and the state of women in Louisiana to the Senate16
Select Committee on Women and Children and the Louisiana Women's Policy17 SB NO. 552
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and Research Commission beginning on August 15, 2013. Each agency shall1
post its annual report on the official website of the agency.2
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Lauren Bailey.
DIGEST
Peterson (SB 552)
Proposed law requires the secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services,
Department of Health and Hospitals, Department of Economic Development, director of the
Department of State Civil Service, the Superintendent of the Department of Education, the
commissioner of the division of administration, the executive director of the Louisiana
Workforce Commission and the head of the Louisiana State University Health Science
Center Health Care Services Division to develop and submit annual reports providing
statistics on women by race and ethnic groups, including, but not limited to, performance
indicators, and the state of women in Louisiana to the Senate Select Committee on Women
and Children and the Louisiana Women's Policy and Research Commission beginning on
August 15, 2013.
Proposed law requires each agency to post their annual report on the official website of the
agency.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Adds R.S. 46:2525.1)
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Senate and
Governmental Affairs to the original bill.
1. Technical amendments properly identifying the head of each agency.
2. Relocate this Section of law from Title 36 to Title 46.