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2017 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 1
BY SENATOR THOMPSON
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS/GROUNDS. Renames the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and
the Arts as the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts. (gov
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1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 11:102(D)(3)(a), R.S. 17:374(A)(2)(g), 419.2(A), 1815(A) and
3 (C)(4), the heading of Part II of Chapter 8 of Title 17 of the Louisiana Revised
4 Statutes of 1950, 1962(2), 1963(A), 1964(A)(15), 1968.1(A)(1) and (B)(1), 1970.1,
5 1970.3(A), and 1970.9(A) and (E), R.S. 36:651(Q), and R.S. 39.98.3(C)(2) and
6 467(B)(2), relative to renaming the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts
7 as the "Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts"; and
8 to provide for related matters.
9 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
10 Section 1. R.S. 11:102(D)(3)(a) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
11 §102. Employer contributions; determination; state systems
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13 D. * * *
14 (3) The provisions of this Paragraph and Paragraphs (4) through (9) of this
15 Subsection shall be effective for the June 30, 2011 system valuation and beginning
16 Fiscal Year 2012-2013. For purposes of this Subsection, "plan" or "plans" shall mean
17 a subgroup within the system characterized by the following employee
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1 classifications:
2 (a) Employees of an institution of postsecondary education, the Board of
3 Regents, or a postsecondary education management board who are not employed for
4 the sole purpose of providing instruction or administrative services at the primary or
5 secondary level, including at any lab school and the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana
6 School for Math, Science, and the Arts.
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8 Section 2. R.S. 17:374(A)(2)(g), 419.2(A), 1815(A) and (C)(4), the heading of Part
9 II of Chapter 8 of Title 17 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, 1962(2), 1963(A),
10 1964(A)(15), 1968.1(A)(1) and (B)(1), 1970.1, 1970.3(A), and 1970.9(A) and (E) are hereby
11 amended and reenacted to read as follows:
12 §374. Quality Science and Mathematics Council; creation; membership; terms;
13 vacancies; domicile; meetings; compensation
14 A. * * *
15 (2) The council shall be comprised of one member of the State Board of
16 Elementary and Secondary Education selected by the board, two members from the
17 state Department of Education appointed by the superintendent of education, and two
18 members of each of the following organizations chosen by the organization:
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20 (g) The Board of Directors for the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School of
21 for Math, Science, and the Arts.
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23 §419.2. Extra compensation for school support personnel
24 A. All noncertificated support personnel employed by city, parish, or other
25 local public school systems and noncertificated, unclassified support personnel
26 employed by the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired, the Louisiana School
27 for the Deaf, the Louisiana Special Education Center, the Jimmy D. Long, Sr.
28 Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, the Southern University Lab
29 School, the Louisiana State University Lab School, the New Orleans Center for the
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1 Creative Arts, the special school districts, the office of juvenile justice in the
2 Department of Public Safety and Corrections, and nonpublic lunchroom employees
3 eligible for state salary supplements shall be paid by the state extra compensation as
4 provided in Subsection B of this Section. The annual state extra compensation shall
5 be paid only to those support personnel not paid exclusively from federal funds.
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7 §1815. Louisiana Hall of Fame for the Arts; Northwestern State University; creation
8 A. There is hereby created the Louisiana Hall of Fame for the Arts which
9 shall be located at the A. A. Fredericks Center for Creative and Performing Arts at
10 Northwestern State University at Natchitoches and which shall be under the joint
11 sponsorship of Northwestern State University and the Jimmy D. Long, Sr.
12 Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts. The hall of fame is established
13 to honor and provide suitable recognition to native and resident Louisianians who
14 have demonstrated meritorious development and achieved statewide, national, and
15 international acclaim in the creative and performing arts, namely, dance, music,
16 theater/film, and visual arts.
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18 C. The election board of the hall of fame shall be composed of nine members,
19 all representative of the arts named above, who shall be appointed by the governor
20 for terms of five years, except that in making his initial appointments, the governor
21 shall appoint one member to serve for a term of one year, two for two years, two for
22 three years, two for four years, and two for five years. The board shall include
23 representation from the following:
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25 (4) A representative of the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School for Math,
26 Science, and the Arts and a representative of Northwestern State University, who
27 shall serve as cochairpersons of the board.
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1 PART II. JIMMY D. LONG, SR. LOUISIANA SCHOOL OF FOR MATH,
2 SCIENCE, AND THE ARTS
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4 §1962. Definitions
5 As used in this Part, the following words, terms and phrases shall have the
6 meanings ascribed to them in this Section, except when the context clearly indicates
7 a different meaning:
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9 (2) "School" means the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School of for Math,
10 Science, and the Arts.
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12 §1963. Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School of for Math, Science, and the Arts;
13 creation; location; governance; relationship with educational boards
14 and state superintendent
15 A. There is hereby created the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School of for
16 Math, Science, and the Arts which shall be a residential institution located on the
17 campus of Northwestern State University of Louisiana at Natchitoches. The school
18 shall open and formally begin operation with the fall semester of 1983. The school
19 shall be funded by the state from monies appropriated therefor; and, full-time
20 students at the school shall attend without payment of tuition.
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22 §1964. Board of directors; creation; membership; terms; powers, duties, and
23 functions; voting; compensation
24 A. There is hereby created a board of directors for the school, sometimes
25 hereinafter referred to as the "board". The board shall be composed of twenty-four
26 members as follows:
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28 (15) The president of the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School of for Math,
29 Science, and the Arts Alumni Association or his designee.
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2 §1968.1. Funding; inclusion in the minimum foundation program formula; other
3 appropriated state funds
4 A.(1)The board of directors of the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School for
5 Math, Science, and the Arts annually shall prepare and adopt a recommended
6 formula to adequately fund the educational programs at the school. The formula shall
7 have as its goal to provide state funding for the school which shall not be less than
8 the average funding on a per student basis at peer institutions in other states having
9 similar programs and enrollments and may provide for achieving its goal over a
10 multiyear period. The recommended formula shall be submitted to the division of
11 administration as the total budget request for the school.
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13 B.(1) For the purposes of this Section, the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana
14 School for Math, Science, and the Arts shall be considered a public secondary school
15 and, as such, shall be included by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary
16 Education in the formula required by Article VIII, Section 13 of the Constitution of
17 Louisiana used to determine the cost of a minimum foundation program of education
18 in all public elementary and secondary schools.
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20 §1970.1. Legislative intent
21 It is the intent of the legislature to establish a college-based residential school
22 for certain high school students with the express purpose of providing a more
23 challenging educational experience and a more enriched creative environment for the
24 children of this state who have a demonstrated talent for and interest in pursuing the
25 creative and performing arts and of developing such children to their full potential.
26 This school will serve only as a magnet school for the arts, and not as a magnet
27 school for mathematics nor the sciences. There shall be no duplication of programs
28 already offered by the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School for Math, Science, and
29 the Arts in Natchitoches. Beyond a demonstration of minimum competencies
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1 expected of all equivalent high school students in Louisiana, admission criteria at the
2 Louis Armstrong High School for the Arts shall not be based upon competitive
3 academic testing, but exclusively upon auditions, or submission of creative writing
4 and art.
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6 §1970.3. Louis Armstrong High School for the Arts; creation; location; governance;
7 relationship with the University of Southwestern Louisiana
8 A. There is hereby created the Louis Armstrong High School for the Arts
9 which shall be a residential institution located on a satellite campus of the University
10 of Southwestern Louisiana at a location in Vermilion Parish. The school may open
11 and begin operation in the fall semester of 1999 only if all capital construction needs
12 for the first ten years have been met or funding for such construction has been
13 secured. The school may be funded by the state from monies appropriated for this
14 purpose. Full-time students at the school may have the same state support, and pay
15 the same fees and tuition, as the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School for Math,
16 Science, and the Arts in Natchitoches.
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18 §1970.9. Funding formula
19 A. The school board of the Louis Armstrong High School for the Arts
20 annually shall prepare and adopt a recommended formula to adequately fund the
21 educational programs at the school. The formula shall be identical to that adopted
22 by the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts in
23 Natchitoches.
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25 E. The amount of funding for any budget request submitted as provided in
26 this Section shall be determined by the legislature. No appropriation made under the
27 provisions of this Section shall exceed on a per-student basis any amount
28 appropriated in the same fiscal year to the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School for
29 Math, Science, and the Arts in Natchitoches.
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1 Section 3. R.S. 36:651(Q) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
2 §651. Transfer of boards, commissions, departments, and agencies to Department of
3 Education; boards, commissions, and agencies within Department of
4 Education
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6 Q. The Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School of for Math, Science, and the
7 Arts and its board of directors (R.S. 17:1961 et seq.) is placed within the Department
8 of Education and shall exercise and perform its powers, duties, functions, and
9 responsibilities in the manner provided for agencies transferred in accordance with
10 the provisions of R.S. 36:801.1.
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12 Section 4. R.S. 39:98.3(C)(2) and 467(B)(2) are hereby amended and reenacted to
13 read as follows:
14 §98.3. Appropriations from the Health Excellence Fund, the Education Excellence
15 Fund, and the TOPS Fund
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17 C. Appropriations from the Education Excellence Fund shall be restricted as
18 follows:
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20 (2) Appropriations shall be made each year to the Louisiana School for the
21 Deaf, the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired, the Louisiana Special
22 Education Center in Alexandria, the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School for
23 Math, Science, and the Arts, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and the Louis
24 Armstrong High School for the Arts, after such schools are operational, to provide
25 for a payment to each school of seventy-five thousand dollars plus an allocation for
26 each pupil equal to the average statewide per pupil amount provided each city,
27 parish, and local school system pursuant to Paragraphs (4) and (5) of this Subsection.
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1 §467. Sales of services and tangible personal property at a publicly owned domed
2 stadium facility or baseball facility; sales and use tax; exemptions
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4 B. * * *
5 (2) Disposition of state tax proceeds. Of the monies remaining after
6 satisfaction of the requirements of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of
7 Louisiana concerning the Bond Security and Redemption Fund, and R.S. 47:318(A)
8 concerning support of economic development, an amount equal to thirty percent of
9 the proceeds of the tax imposed under R.S. 47:321 on sales occurring for or at the
10 state-owned domed facility described in Subparagraph (A)(5)(a) of this Section shall
11 be allocated one-half to the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School of for Math,
12 Science, and the Arts, and one-half to the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. All
13 monies remaining thereafter shall be deposited into the state general fund. For
14 purposes of this allocation, on the last day of November of each year the secretary
15 of the Department of Revenue shall provide to the chairman of the Joint Legislative
16 Committee on the Budget and the commissioner of administration an official
17 estimate of the amount of state revenues received within the previous twelve months
18 which were derived from the tax imposed pursuant to R.S. 47:321 from sales for or
19 at the state-owned domed facility described in Subparagraph (A)(5)(a) of this
20 Section. The estimate shall be utilized by the commissioner of administration in the
21 preparation of the following year's executive budget in which a recommendation
22 shall be made to appropriate such amounts as may be necessary to provide for this
23 allocation.
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25 Section 5. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not
26 signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature
27 by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If
28 vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become
29 effective on the day following such approval.
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Cheryl Serrett.
DIGEST
SB 1 Original 2017 Regular Session Thompson
Proposed law renames the Louisiana School of Math, Science, and the Arts as the Jimmy D.
Long, Sr. Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Amends R.S. 11:102(D)(3)(a), 17:374(A)(2)(g), 419.2(A), 1815(A) and (C)(4), the heading
of Part II of Chapter 8 of Title 17, 1962(2), 1963(A), and 1964(A)(15), 1968.1(A)(1) and
(B)(1), 1970.1, 1970.3(A), and 1970.9(A) and (E), R.S. 36:651(Q), and R.S. 39:98.3(C)(2)
and 467(B)(2))
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