The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Jay R. Lueckel.
DIGEST
SB 175 Original 2016 Regular Session Donahue
Present law provides for a procedure whereby the legislature may review the exercise of rule-making
authority and the adoption, increase, or decrease of fees, or extensions of the legislative lawmaking
function, which it has delegated to state agencies.
Present law provides that prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of any rule or the adoption,
increase, or decrease of any fee, the agency shall submit a report relative to such proposed rule
change or fee adoption, increase, or decrease to the appropriate standing committees of the
legislature and the presiding officers of the respective houses.
Present law also provides that, in addition to the submission of a report relative to a proposed rule
change or fee adoption, increase, or decrease by an agency to the appropriate standing committee,
whenever the fiscal impact of the rule or fee adoption, increase, or decrease, as indicated by the
statement of fiscal impact, exceeds one million dollars, the report on the proposed rule change or fee
adoption, increase, or decrease shall also be submitted to the Senate Committee on Finance and the
House Committee on Appropriations and shall be subject to review by those committees in the same
manner and to the same extent as the review of the standing committees.
Proposed law retains present law but lowers the threshold from $1 million to $100,000.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Amends R.S. 49:968(B)(24)(a))