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2016 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 943
BY REPRESENTATIVE LEOPOLD
FISCAL CONTROLS: Prohibits the creation of new employment positions in state
government from August 1, 2016, through June 30, 2018
1 AN ACT
2To enact R.S. 39:85.1 and to repeal R.S. 39:85.1, relative to the filling of positions in state
3 government; to prohibit the creation of new positions for a certain time period; to
4 remove such provisions; and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. 39:85.1 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
7 ยง85.1. Prohibition on creating new positions
8 A.(1) Except as provided in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection, no agency as
9 defined in R.S. 39:2 or agent of such an agency shall create a new employment
10 position in the executive branch of state government.
11 (2) Institutions of higher education and their management boards shall be
12 exempt from the provisions of this Subsection.
13 B. No house, official, committee, employee, or other entity or agent of the
14 legislative branch of state government shall create a new employment position in the
15 legislative branch of state government.
16 C. The provisions of this Section shall be inapplicable, inoperative, and of
17 no effect after June 30, 2018.
18 Section 2. R.S. 39:85.1 is hereby repealed in its entirety.
19 Section 3.(A) The provisions of Section 1 of this Act and of this Section shall
20become effective on August 1, 2016.
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1 (B) The provisions of Section 2 of this Act shall become effective on July 1, 2018.
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 943 Engrossed 2016 Regular Session Leopold
Abstract: Prohibits the creation of new employment positions in the executive and
legislative branches of state government from August 1, 2016, through June 30,
2018.
Proposed law prohibits any agency as defined in present law (R.S. 39:2) or agent of the
agency from creating a new employment position in the executive branch of state
government. Proposed law exempts institutions of higher education and their management
boards from the prohibition. Present law defines "agency" as any state office, department,
board, commission, institution, division, officer or other person, or functional group,
heretofore existing or hereafter created, that is authorized to exercise, or that does exercise,
any functions of the government of the state in the executive branch, but not any governing
body or officer of any local government or subdivision of the state, or any parochial officer
who exercises functions coterminous with the municipality in which he performs those
functions.
Proposed law prohibits any house, official, committee, employee, or other entity or agent of
the legislative branch of state government from creating a new employment position in the
legislative branch of state government.
Proposed law provides that the provisions of proposed law shall be inapplicable, inoperative,
and of no effect after June 30, 2018.
Effective August 1, 2016; except repeal of proposed law effective July 1, 2018.
(Adds R.S. 39:85.1; Repeals R.S. 39:85.1)
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
The Committee Amendments Proposed by House Committee on Appropriations to the
original bill:
1. Remove prohibition on filling vacant positions and creating new positions by the
judicial branch of state government.
2. Remove prohibition on filling vacant positions in the executive branch and the
legislative branch.
3. Add an exemption to proposed law for institutions of higher education and their
management boards.
4. Change effective date from July 1, 2016, to August 1, 2016.
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