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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 199
BY SENATOR MURRAY AND REPRESENTATI VE MILLER
ETHICS. Provides, relative to personal financial disclosure, that assessment of a late fee for
which all appeal delays have expired will become executory and enforced as a money
judgment. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 42:1124.1(D), relative to personal financial disclosure; to provide for the2
assessment and collection of late fees; to provide civil proceedings to collect such3
assessment; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 42:1124.1(D) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:6
ยง1124.1. Penalties; required reports; failure to file; timely and accurate filing7
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D. When all delays for a request for waiver or appeal have expired, a9
final order of the supervisory committee or its staff or final decision of an10
adjudicatory panel of the Ethics Adjudicatory Board shall become executory11
and may be enforced as any other money judgment. The supervisory committee12
may file civil proceedings to collect such civil penalties in the district court of13
the parish in which the candidate, chairman, or treasurer of the political14
committee or other person required to file reports is domiciled. The proceedings15
shall be conducted pursuant to the relevant provisions of the Louisiana Code of16
Civil Procedure. The proceeds of such civil penalties shall be paid directly to the17 SB NO. 199
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treasurer of the state of Louisiana.1
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Ashley Menou.
DIGEST
Proposed law allows the late fees resulting from failure to file personal financial disclosures
timely to become executory and enforced as money judgments after the expiration of all
applicable time delays.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Adds R.S. 42:1124.1(D))