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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 enacted 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 Board of Ethics or its staff shall become executory and may10
be enforced as any other money judgment. The Board of Ethics may file civil11
proceedings to collect such civil penalties in the district court of the parish in12
which the candidate, chairman, or treasurer of the political committee or other13
person required to file reports is domiciled. The proceedings shall be conducted14
pursuant to the relevant provisions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure.15
The proceeds of such civil penalties shall be paid directly to the treasurer of the16
state of Louisiana.17 SB NO. 199
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The original instrument was prepared by Ashley Menou. The following
digest, which does not constitute a part of the legislative instrument, was
prepared by Thomas L. Tyler.
DIGEST
Murray (SB 199)
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.
Proposed law provides penalties due to a failure to file personal financial disclosure
statements timely. Provides that when all delays for a request for waiver or appeal have
expired, a final order of the Board of Ethics or its staff shall become executory and may be
enforced as any other money judgment. Authorizes the Board of Ethics to file civil
proceedings to collect the civil penalties in the district court of the parish in which the
candidate, chairman, or treasurer of the political committee or other person required to file
reports is domiciled. Provides that these proceedings be conducted pursuant to the relevant
provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure and that the proceeds from these civil penalties
be paid directly to the state treasurer.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Adds R.S. 42:1124.1(D))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Senate and
Governmental Affairs to the original bill
1. Clarifies that a final order of the Board of Ethics or its staff becomes
executory when all delays have expired and may be enforced as any other
money judgment.