ENROLLED
ACT No. 17
2016 Second Extraordinary Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 52
BY REPRESENTATIVE ABRAMSON
1 AN ACT
2 To provide relative to the capital outlay appropriations for Fiscal Year 2016-2017; to
3 provide with respect to capital outlay project requests; to require the submission of
4 certain capital outlay project requests; to provide for applicability; to provide for
5 effectiveness.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of the Capital Outlay Act of the 2016
8 Second Extraordinary Session of the Legislature, or any provision of law to the contrary, all
9 projects for which a line of credit has been approved in the current fiscal year shall submit
10 a new capital outlay request to the Office of Facility Planning and Control, which shall be
11 received by the office on or before November 1, 2016. All new capital outlay requests
12 submitted on non-state projects for which a line of credit has been approved in the current
13 fiscal year shall submit a new capital outlay request which shall include a letter of support
14 from a legislator in whose district the project is located, in order to be eligible for the Fiscal
15 Year 2017-2018 capital outlay process. The non-state project application shall not be
16 deemed complete unless the project has either a fully executed cooperative endeavor
17 agreement or proof of the applicable local match, if required, submitted to and received by
18 the division of administration, office of facility planning and control and the Joint
19 Legislative Committee on Capital Outlay on or before February 1, 2017.
20 Section 2. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of the Capital Outlay Act of the
21 2016 Second Extraordinary Session of the Legislature, Priority 1 general obligation bond
22 funding shall include highway projects that were previously authorized and appropriated to
23 the Department of Transportation and Development Projects in Priority 5 of Act 26 of the
24 2015 Regular Session of the Legislature and that were granted non-cash lines of credit; all
25 or part of which projects are being combined in and reauthorized in the Highway Program.
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1 Section 3. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not
2 signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature
3 by the governor, as provided in Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If
4 vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become
5 effective on the day following such approval.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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