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Regular Session, 2013
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 31
BY REPRESENTATIVE CHAMPAGNE
HOUSE/RULES: Provides for recommittal of any instrument with a specified fiscal impact
to the Committee on Appropriations
A RESOLUTION1
To amend and readopt House Rule 6.8(F) of the Rules of Order of the House of2
Representatives to provide relative to the recommittal of certain legislative3
instruments.4
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana5
that House Rule 6.8(F) of the Rules of Order of the House of Representatives is hereby6
amended and readopted to read as follows:7
Rule 6.8. Recommittal: Constitutional amendments; study resolutions; Capital8
Outlay Bill; minimum foundation resolution; legislative instruments creating9
special funds; legislative instruments with a fiscal impact; public records10
exceptions; interstate compacts; felonies11
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F.(1) Any legislative instrument originating in the Senate with an estimated13
fiscal cost of five one hundred thousand dollars or more of state general14
funds annually in any one of the three ensuing fiscal years as reflected in the fiscal15
note prepared in accordance with Joint Rule No. 4, or with a fiscal cost which that,16
although not specified in the fiscal note, is indicated in the fiscal note as likely to17
equal or exceed five one hundred thousand dollars of state general funds annually in18
any of the three ensuing fiscal years, shall be referred to a standing committee under19
the provisions of Rule 6.5 and, if reported, shall be reported to the Clerk of the20 HLS 13RS-1162 ENGROSSED
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House in accordance with the requirements of Rule 6.11(A). However, after such1
report, any such House instrument ordered engrossed, immediately following the2
engrossment order, and any such Senate instrument reported favorably or with3
amendments, immediately following the reading of such report and action on any4
amendments reported, shall be recommitted by the Speaker to the Committee on5
Appropriations.6
(2) Any legislative instrument that is estimated to cause or result in a7
reduction in revenues to the state of five hundred thousand dollars or more annually8
in any one of the three ensuing fiscal years as reflected in the fiscal note prepared in9
accordance with Joint Rule No. 4, shall be referred to a standing committee under the10
provisions of Rule 6.5 and, if reported, shall be reported to the Clerk of the House11
in accordance with the requirements of Rule 6.11(A). However, after such report,12
any such House instrument ordered engrossed, immediately following the13
engrossment order, and any such Senate instrument reported favorably or with14
amendments, immediately following the reading of such report and action on any15
amendments reported, shall be recommitted by the Speaker to the Committee on16
Appropriations.17
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature19
of Louisiana that House Rule 6.8(F)(2) is hereby repealed in its entirety effective January20
11, 2016.21
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)]
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Abstract: Requires any legislative instrument with an estimated fiscal cost of $100,000 or
more annually of state general funds, or with an estimated decrease in revenues to
the state of $500,000 or more, to be recommitted to the Appropriations Committee,
if reported by a different standing committee.
Present House Rule (House Rule 6.8) requires the recommittal of certain legislative
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proposing certain studies (House and Governmental Affairs); the Capital Outlay Bill
(Appropriations); the MFP concurrent resolution (Appropriations); special 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); and provisions to join an interstate compact (House and
Governmental Affairs).
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 that, although not specified,
is indicated in the fiscal note as likely to be $100,000 or more annually of state general funds
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 further requires any legislative instrument that is estimated to cause
or result in a reduction in revenues to the state of $500,000 or more annually in any one of
the three ensuing fiscal years as reflected in the fiscal note to be recommitted to the
Committee on Appropriations if reported by another standing committee and provides that
this proposed House Rule is repealed effective Jan. 11, 2016.
(Amends House Rule 6.8(F))