HLS 15RS-1029 ORIGINAL
2015 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 112
BY REPRESENTATIVE JIM MORRIS
BUDGETARY CONTROL S: Reduces the expenditure limit for FY 2015-2016
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2To direct the commissioner of administration to change the expenditure limit for Fiscal Year
3 2015-2016.
4 WHEREAS, the expenditure limit provided for in Article VII, Section 10(C)(1) of
5the Constitution of Louisiana for Fiscal Year 2015-2016 and presented to the Joint
6Legislative Committee on the Budget at its February 27, 2017, meeting is established as
7Thirteen Billion Eight Hundred Fifty-three Million Seven Hundred Sixty-Nine Thousand
8Three Hundred Two Dollars and No/100 ($13,853,769,302.00) Dollars; and
9 WHEREAS, the expenditures from Appropriations Acts and Other Requirements for
10Fiscal Year 2015-2016 proposed in the Executive Budget applicable to the expenditure limit
11are Twelve Billion Fifty-Nine Million Six Hundred Ninety-Four Thousand Seven Hundred
12Eighty-One and No/100 ($12,059,694,781.00) Dollars, or One Billion Seven Hundred
13Ninety-Four Million Seventy-Four Thousand Five Hundred Twenty-One and No/100
14($1,794,074,521.00) Dollars less than the expenditure limit, according to information
15presented to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget at its February 27, 2015,
16meeting; and
17 WHEREAS, HCR No. 6 of the 2013 Regular Session of the Legislature reduced the
18expenditure limit for Fiscal Year 2013-2014 from Fifteen Billion Six Hundred Eighty-Six
19Million Six Hundred Forty-Six Thousand Four Hundred Twenty-Four and No/100
20($15,686,646,424.00) Dollars to Twelve Billion Nine Hundred Sixteen Million One Hundred
21Forty Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty-Four and No/100 ($12,916,140,954.00) Dollars; and
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1 WHEREAS, the new expenditure limit was One Billion One Hundred Fifty-Seven
2Million Seven Hundred Twenty-Six Thousand Three Hundred Thirty and No/100
3($1,157,726,330.00) Dollars less than the Appropriation Acts and Other Requirements
4according to the state budget document; and
5 WHEREAS, reducing the expenditure limit to maintain a One Billion Two Hundred
6Million and No/100 ($1,200,000,000.00) Dollars difference between the expenditure limit
7and applicable expenditures would allow an almost ten percent increase in appropriations
8before reaching the expenditure limit; and
9 WHEREAS, Article VII, Section 10(C)(2) of the Constitution of Louisiana provides
10that the expenditure limit may be changed in any fiscal year by a favorable vote of two-thirds
11of the elected members of each house and that any such change in the expenditure limit shall
12be approved by the passage of a specific legislative instrument which clearly states the intent
13to change the limit; and
14 WHEREAS, R.S. 39:52.1 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 provides that
15a change to the expenditure limit shall be made pursuant to a concurrent resolution adopted
16by a favorable vote of two-thirds of the elected members of each house directing the
17commissioner of administration to change the expenditure limit to a designated amount for
18a specified fiscal year.
19 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana, two-thirds of
20the elected members of each house concurring, does hereby direct the commissioner of
21administration to change the expenditure limit for Fiscal Year 2015-2016 from Thirteen
22Billion Eight Hundred Fifty-Three Million Seven Hundred Sixty-Nine Thousand Three
23Hundred Two Dollars and No/100 ($13,853,769,302.00) Dollars to Thirteen Billion Two
24Hundred Fifty-Nine Million Six Hundred Ninety-Four Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty-One
25and No/100 ($13,259,694,781.00) Dollars.
26 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the provisions of this Resolution shall be
27construed to affect the expenditure limit for Fiscal Year 2016-2017 and thereafter in
28accordance with Article VII, Section 10(C) of the Constitution 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)]
HCR 112 Original 2015 Regular Session Jim Morris
Directs the commissioner of administration to change the expenditure limit for FY 2015-
2016 from $13,853,769,302 to $13,259,694,781.
Provisions of this Resolution shall be construed to affect the expenditure limit for FY 2016-
2017 and thereafter.
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