DIGEST
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or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 698 Original 2015 Regular Session Abramson
Abstract: Requires the judiciary to prepare and submit an annual financial report of expenditures,
revenues, and employee positions for the last fiscal year concluded.
Proposed law requires the Judicial Budgetary Control Board, or a judicial body designated by the
supreme court, to develop an annual financial report to communicate expenditures, revenues, and
employee positions for the judiciary for the last fiscal year concluded. The report will be used in the
development of the judicial appropriation bill. Further, the board is required to submit the report to
the governor, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and the president of the Senate, and also
make the report available on the supreme court website on the same day that present law requires
the judicial appropriation bill to be submitted to the legislature.
Proposed law requires that the report contain information on expenditures, revenues, and employee
positions of the judiciary as required in proposed law for each level of court, including the supreme
court, the intermediate court of appeal, the district courts, and family and juvenile courts.
Effective July 1, 2015.
(Amends 13:81(B)(2) and 83(A) and (C); Adds 13:83(E))