HLS 15RS-476 ENGROSSED
2015 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 529
BY REPRESENTATIVE MILLER
LEVEES/BDS & DISTRICTS: Provides relative to the Lafourche Basin Levee District
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 38:334(A), relative to expenditures of taxes collected by the
3 Lafourche Basin Levee District from property in St. Charles Parish located west of
4 the Mississippi River; to provide that certain provisions of law relating to
5 expenditures of taxes collected by the Lafourche Basin Levee District from property
6 in St. Charles Parish located west of the Mississippi River shall not apply in certain
7 circumstances; and to provide for related matters.
8 Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published
9 as provided by Article III, Section 13 of the Constitution of
10 Louisiana.
11Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
12 Section 1. R.S. 38:334(A) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
13 ยง334. Revenue utilization; Lafourche Basin Levee District
14 A.(1) Of all the taxes collected by the Lafourche Basin Levee District from
15 property located within St. Charles Parish located west of the Mississippi River, not
16 less than fifty-seven percent of the tax monies shall be expended for the purposes of
17 levee construction, levee maintenance, and other flood control and drainage works
18 within that parish. These expenditures shall be in cash or in-kind services as
19 determined by the parish governing body. When such funds are expended within St.
20 Charles Parish, in-kind services shall not exceed fifty percent of such expenditures.
21 Expenditures shall be certified as received by the parish's governing body at the end
22 of each fiscal year.
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HB NO. 529
1 (2) The provisions of Paragraph (1) of this Subsection shall not apply during
2 any tax year in which the Lafourche Basin Levee District maintains the St. Charles
3 Parish West Bank Hurricane Protection Levee System, including the West Bank and
4 general vicinity, Western Tie-In, Davis Pond Levee, Willowridge Levee, Ellington
5 Levee, Magnolia Ridge Levee, and Sunset Drainage District Levee, as a whole or as
6 each section is transferred to the Lafourche Basin Levee District for maintenance,
7 operation, and control, subject to any amendments made by the state of Louisiana.
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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)]
HB 529 Engrossed 2015 Regular Session Miller
Abstract: Provides that certain provisions relating to the distribution of taxes collected by
the Lafourche Basin Levee District from property located within St. Charles Parish
shall not apply during any tax year in which the Lafourche Basin Levee District
maintains the St. Charles Parish West Bank Hurricane Protection Levee System.
Present law provides that taxes collected by the Lafourche Basin Levee District from
property located within St. Charles Parish located west of the Mississippi River, not less than
57% of the tax monies are to be expended for the purposes of levee construction, levee
maintenance, and other flood control and drainage works within St. Charles Parish. These
expenditures are to be in cash or in-kind services as determined by the parish governing
body. When such funds are expended within St. Charles Parish, in-kind services shall not
exceed 50% of such expenditures.
Proposed law retains present law, but specifies that present law shall not apply during any
tax year in which the Lafourche Basin Levee District maintains the St. Charles Parish West
Bank Hurricane Protection Levee System, as a whole or as each section is transferred to the
Lafourche Basin Levee District for maintenance, operation, and control, subject to any
amendments made by the state of La.
(Amends R.S. 38:334(A))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
The Committee Amendments Proposed by House Committee on Transportation,
Highways and Public Works to the original bill:
1. Clarify that provisions of present law shall not apply during any tax year in
which the Lafourche Basin Levee District maintains the St. Charles Parish West
Bank Hurricane Protection Levee System, as a whole or as each section is
transferred to the Lafourche Basin Levee District for maintenance, operation, and
control, subject to any amendments made by the state of La.
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